This much-missed British airport might reopen simply two years after it closed

Again in February 2023, we at Time Out reported that Doncaster Sheffield Airport could have been about to make a really welcome return from the grave. A lot to the delight of northern holidaymakers, Doncaster Council revealed plans to lease the positioning and reopen it. Doncaster Sheffield Airport solely closed in November 2022. 

And now that reopening could possibly be getting a step nearer. This week (week starting February 12 2024), a vote is due on the board of the South Yorkshire Mixed Authority that would approve funds to lease Doncaster Sheffield Airport. A whopping £138 million of public cash could possibly be freed to get the airport again up and working. 

Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones informed the BBC that saving and reopening the airport was her ‘primary precedence’.

She stated: ‘I’m happy to say lease negotiations proceed to progress positively and I am assured we will agree a deal, however we aren’t over the road but. We’re following our fastidiously managed plan.’

Doncaster Sheffield Airport closed in November 2022 regardless of being topped the most effective airport within the UK by Which? simply months earlier than. It had been praised for its ‘faultless service’ however then was compelled to shut because of an ‘inadequate lack of present or potential income streams’. 

If the council is profitable within the vote later this week, Doncaster Sheffield might as soon as once more offer flights to a spread of locations together with Tenerife, Bucharest and Lanzarote. Watch this house for updates! 

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