alchresearch Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Sheffield City Airport was never 'set up' as a going concern. It was always meant to fail. Why? Ask Peel Holdings. A friend of mine ( plus a few others) were on the consultative committee. Mysteriously, as soon as they started asking questions, they were banned from the Airport. No reasons given. Read into that what you will. We're also having problems with Peel Holdings. They want to convert two nice stretches of open parkland and moorland into an industrial estate and a racecourse, and despite the hundreds of objections from residents and local councillors, the Labour council have not refused their requests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete_S Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 So we've lost the airport. I reckon it was doomed from the start. It just wasn't big enough to attract the major airlines. Pity, we are about to regain the title "Biggest village in Europe". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete_S Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 So we've lost the airport. I reckon it was doomed from the start. It just wasn't big enough to attract the major airlines. Pity, we are about to regain the title "Biggest village in Europe". Sorry didn't realise someone had already startrd a thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayBlade Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 So whats happening with it now? Any chance of it becoming an Airport again? 4th biggest city in England and don't have our own airport, but Donny have one that's failing.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I flew a plane over it last year and you could have easily used it to land if you needed to in an emergency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 So whats happening with it now? Any chance of it becoming an Airport again? 4th biggest city in England and don't have our own airport, but Donny have one that's failing.............. Fat chance. Why do we need an airport in the city anyway? Who are all these people jetting in and out every day. A handful of holiday charter flights are hardly enough scope for a massive operation that an airport is. We might well be 4th biggest city (although im not entirely sure that's correct in any event) but we are also one of the hilliest. Does not make a very good geography for building an airport for anything larger than city hopper type aircraft. We had that. It was in place during the more booming years of the 90s when businessmen did (assumedly) fly in and out. Those days are long gone and even the largest and most corporate companies have changed their working methods and slashed their jet set lifestyles. Technology has moved on. Requirements for travel have changed. With Manchester just an hour or so away having a good range of Europe, US and even some far east routes and now Doncaster catering for the budget and charter airline crowd there is absolutely no need for another airport. Both of those airports have taken decades to be established just to get to an break even level. Its simply not viable or necessary to have another. The city airport vanity project we had was just that. A vanity project. As if it was ever going to be realistic long term prospect that enough people would actually spend time and the pay additional fares flying to their destinations interchanging via Amsterdam just to be able to stay local and avoid travelling to Manchester or East Midlands. Ludicrous. I would rather see money spent finally getting the railways improved and some electrification of the mainline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyranna Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 ThE airport is still probably used by private aircraft or 'general aviation', but to be realistic, the days of cheap charter flights like RYANAIR are soon over, with Ryanair looking at getting into operating rail services and the increasing advantages in terms of speed without all the security/boarding delays that rail has over very short haul air travel. For this reason there has been a real decline in the number of very short haul flights such as London to Birmingham and Manchester, or, for example Dublin-Cork and Dublin-Shannon in Ireland. By far the most surprising reason for decline in very short-haul flying is that due to security/boarding delays for even the shortest flights, it is the CAR which is the strongest competitor, even more so than the train, due to the car being a fully door-to-door mode of transport and also the introduction Of the Satnav has enabled car-drivers to dodge most congestion and delays on motorways, etc. thereby making car travel even quicker, despite the maximum speed limit being still 70mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apprentice89 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 The aiport is going to be a pod for the university there will be no longer a runway there just helipad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mecheng46 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Planning permission has been granted to turn the entire site into a business park, however in December 2012, Sheffield City Council received details of a bid to reopen the airport. The unknown bidder has been confirmed by the Federation of Small Businesses as a "serious bidder", and intends to reopen the airport to scheduled UK and European destinations, flight training, air taxi and business charter services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_City_Airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMaquis Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 So whats happening with it now? It's closed due to the snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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