The new airport at Finningley near Doncaster opened for business today, with the departure of a Thomsonfly service to Palma. The first arrival at the new airport will be a Ryanair flight from Dublin at around 12:55. Around 600 new jobs have been created, many for local people.
(Unlike what many media reports state, this is not the first commercial airport in the UK for 30 years, London City was officially opened in 1987.)
New Airport Opens in UK
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The name is totally stupid and misleading. Why not just call it Finningley, or Doncaster? Sheffield had its own joke of an airport and that didn't last two minutes.
I hope the new airport does well because it has helped the economy of the area with providing jobs, and there are signs of future growth, as trans Atlantic services start next year and probably there will be more holiday destinations added to the list. More ex military airfields should be put to this use instead of ripping up countryside to build more runways, why not use ones which are already there and not in use?
I hope the new airport does well because it has helped the economy of the area with providing jobs, and there are signs of future growth, as trans Atlantic services start next year and probably there will be more holiday destinations added to the list. More ex military airfields should be put to this use instead of ripping up countryside to build more runways, why not use ones which are already there and not in use?
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Emirates, this may be 
fftopic: but the UK isn't falling behind because of "precise attitudes" but because of a skills shortage caused and funded by Blair's government.
Businesses say that there aren't enough skilled workers to fill jobs, but if Blair didn't give financial incentives for employers to only take on and train the under 25s, then many more people would be able to learn the skills that businesses are short of, and there would be fewer people out of work and claiming benefits. People are stuck on the dole because of the attitude that states you are incapable of learning anything once you are past 25, there is a lot of potential going to waste in this country because of Blair's government-funded, legalised age discrimination.
I know what I am talking about because I have been continuously denied access to proper work-based training on the grounds of my age, I have been fired just to make way for under 25s, which would not have happened if Blair was not giving handouts to employers to encourage them in this practice.
And I still stand by my case that the new airport name is completely stupid, as well as being a bloody mouthful. I do not see the need to be naming airports after people, real or fictitious. And if they had to use the Robin Hood name, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to call the renamed East Midlands airport "Robin Hood" seeing as it now carries the Nottingham name? People don't associate Doncaster/Sheffield with Robin Hood, or indeed any other famous person.
And I still stand by my view that other ex-RAF bases should be converted into civilian airports. It makes economic sense, can save money in the long run and obviously be good for the economies of many places.
fftopic: but the UK isn't falling behind because of "precise attitudes" but because of a skills shortage caused and funded by Blair's government.Businesses say that there aren't enough skilled workers to fill jobs, but if Blair didn't give financial incentives for employers to only take on and train the under 25s, then many more people would be able to learn the skills that businesses are short of, and there would be fewer people out of work and claiming benefits. People are stuck on the dole because of the attitude that states you are incapable of learning anything once you are past 25, there is a lot of potential going to waste in this country because of Blair's government-funded, legalised age discrimination.
I know what I am talking about because I have been continuously denied access to proper work-based training on the grounds of my age, I have been fired just to make way for under 25s, which would not have happened if Blair was not giving handouts to employers to encourage them in this practice.
And I still stand by my case that the new airport name is completely stupid, as well as being a bloody mouthful. I do not see the need to be naming airports after people, real or fictitious. And if they had to use the Robin Hood name, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to call the renamed East Midlands airport "Robin Hood" seeing as it now carries the Nottingham name? People don't associate Doncaster/Sheffield with Robin Hood, or indeed any other famous person.
And I still stand by my view that other ex-RAF bases should be converted into civilian airports. It makes economic sense, can save money in the long run and obviously be good for the economies of many places.
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
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Maybe naive attitude.
It could just be that some people under 25 are better than the people over that age range. More qualified etc? I am not having a dig at you here.
I am very sorry that you were fired from your job instead of being made redundant. Personally I would have taken them to a tribunal for that!
Ok! That's me done, I'm not saying anymore on the matter!
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It could just be that some people under 25 are better than the people over that age range. More qualified etc? I am not having a dig at you here.
I am very sorry that you were fired from your job instead of being made redundant. Personally I would have taken them to a tribunal for that!
Ok! That's me done, I'm not saying anymore on the matter!
Emirates
It is getting pretty busy in that corner.
There is Leeds-Bradford, Nottingham East Midlands (lousy airport by the way) and Scunthorpe, served by KLM from Amsterdam to very little people their notice (used a lot by people in the steel business because of the steel plant of Scunthorpe in the Corus group of which former Hoogovens also is a partner)
Just as with East Midlands, the new airport seems to be developed as an escape route for Brits who are fed up about the bad weather and heavely controlled state and run away to Portugal or Spain.
There is Leeds-Bradford, Nottingham East Midlands (lousy airport by the way) and Scunthorpe, served by KLM from Amsterdam to very little people their notice (used a lot by people in the steel business because of the steel plant of Scunthorpe in the Corus group of which former Hoogovens also is a partner)
Just as with East Midlands, the new airport seems to be developed as an escape route for Brits who are fed up about the bad weather and heavely controlled state and run away to Portugal or Spain.
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It would be better of some of the airports east of the Pennines developed long haul a little better. At the moment, people who want to fly long haul from here have to go to Manchester or Birmingham or London, all the airports we have at this side of the country all fly to the same old places.
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I read about the proposed development at Stansted, and you have my sympathy p1lot. It is criminal that people could see their homes and businesses demolished to build a runway when there are places sitting empty. Why not develop the old aircraft factory at Hatfield to be a London-area airport? The place has a runway which could be put to some use instead of building new stuff round Stansted. It has to be more cost-effective to develop an existing site instead of building whole new stuff which would have a very negative effect upon the local population.
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Hello
That's very nice news.
To my knowledge there aren't many airports being build anymore (on a new location) the last years , except in Asia , and especially in Japan and China were airtraffic is booming beyond imagination.
Kansai and Narita in Japan , Incheon in South Korea and Chek Lap Kok in Hong-Kong.
But it's good new for British spotters.
Best regards: Yannick
That's very nice news.
To my knowledge there aren't many airports being build anymore (on a new location) the last years , except in Asia , and especially in Japan and China were airtraffic is booming beyond imagination.
Kansai and Narita in Japan , Incheon in South Korea and Chek Lap Kok in Hong-Kong.
But it's good new for British spotters.
Best regards: Yannick
