uk-airport-news.info is the UK's first and only complete UK airport news website.
There is so much going on at UK airports, that it's hard to keep track. And this is where we can help. We scour online and offline news sources every day for news about UK airports. We read the stories and the press releases, pick out the facts, and we post them on this website.
Click on any of the links in the 'news @ uk airports' box on the left to find out what's happening at your favourite airport, look just below for links to the latest uk airport news stories or click on the links in the airport services section for all of the airport things you need. We also have guides to UK Airport Parking and UK Airport Hotels.
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The Latest UK Airport News Stories:
11.03.10 Union to discuss strike dates after BA talks fail
11.03.10 BAA sees first passenger rise in 2 years
11.03.10 Stansted runway inquiry faces two year delay
11.03.10 Manchester Airport passengers down 10.5%
11.03.10 EU likely to approve BA / AA alliance after slot deal
11.03.10 BA Newcastle employee faces terror charges
11.03.10 New Travelodge hotel for Stansted Airport
10.03.10 BA cabin crew talks deadline extended
10.03.10 Peel deny plans to sell UK airports
10.03.10 Oxford – Edinburgh flights grounded after just one week
10.03.10 Councils want new Heathrow regulator
10.03.10 BAA mortgages Stansted Airport runway properties
10.03.10 Edinburgh Airport flight emergency
10.03.10 Gatwick Express offer 10% discount
09.03.10 Union says BA strike ’50:50’
09.03.10 Manchester Airport ‘to be as busy as Heathrow’
09.03.10 Concerns raised over debris on Jersey Airport runway
09.03.10 New security bollards for Edinburgh Airport
09.03.10 Business aviation firm relocates to Robin Hood Airport
09.03.10 Monarch add Easter Canaries capacity
08.03.10 easyJet trial queue cutting mobile devises at Edinburgh Airport
08.03.10 New A380 departure procedure at Heathrow to reduce emissions
08.03.10 Exeter Airport expects busiest summer
08.03.10 SAS add Heathrow – Stockholm flight
08.03.10 Airport parking company reveals mystery shopper results
08.03.10 Charity gets £700 ‘reward’ from Cardiff Airport
07.03.10 Peel ‘to sell UK airports’
07.03.10 Manchester Airport wants photos for new ‘arrivals experience’
07.03.10 Over a tonne of liquid tobacco seized at Heathrow
07.03.10 Traffic warning for East Midlands Airport
07.03.10 Air Southwest Oyster deal for London bound passengers
07.03.10 New Southampton Airport restaurant celebrates spitfire anniversary
06.03.10 Unite agree to pay freeze and 'new fleet' to avert BA strike
06.03.10 Border staff strike to hit all UK airports
06.03.10 Contract signed to build new Heathrow terminal
06.03.10 Police get new base at Leeds Bradford Airport
06.03.10 KLM to add extra Liverpool – Amsterdam flight
06.03.10 Ryanair add Faro flights from Derry Airport
05.03.10 Council approve Lydd Airport expansion
05.03.10 easyJet passengers up 12.3%
05.03.10 Virgin plan Heathrow – Ghana service
05.03.10 Atheist admits Liverpool Airport chapel images charge
05.03.10 Community service for Edinburgh Airport stun gun passenger
05.03.10 Ryanair adds Malaga flights from UK airports
05.03.10 BT lose BAA airports wi-fi contract
04.03.10 Bristol Airport planning decision delayed
04.03.10 1000 cabin crew trained staff and rented planes will help BA operate during strike
04.03.10 Women banned from flight after refusing to go through ‘naked’ scanners
04.03.10 BA passenger traffic up 1.1%
04.03.10 Ryanair passengers up 6%
04.03.10 BA aim to sign Iberia merger by end of Q1
04.03.10 Birmingham Airport introduce facial recognition passport control
04.03.10 More roadworks misery for Luton Airport passengers
03.03.10 Bristol Airport boss makes case for expansion
03.03.10 Bristol Airport boss makes case for expansion
03.03.10 Prestwick Airport passengers down 22%
03.03.10 Woman arrested after trying to enter cockpit on Heathrow flight
03.03.10 BA worker questioned in terror funding probe
03.03.10 Virgin confirms extra Glasgow – Orlando flights
03.03.10 easyJet’s Ryanair claims advert misleading
02.03.10 Airlines dismiss ‘Boris Island’ airport plan
02.03.10 Council question Scottish Government on Edinburgh Airport expansion
02.03.10 Walsh urges BA staff to ‘pull together’ to beat strike
02.03.10 Varsity launch Oxford – Edinburgh flights
02.03.10 BA extend London City – Barcelona flights
02.03.10 Aer Arran announce new Irish routes for Edinburgh and Manchester airports
02.03.10 Entreprenaurs to help boost Glasgow Airport
01.03.10 Big fall in BA bookings on strike fears
01.03.10 Airport retail sales soar on weak pound
01.03.10 £2000 fine over Inverness Airport bomb comment
01.03.10 Places open on Belfast City Airport forum
01.03.10 Continental launch mobile boarding passes at Heathrow
28.02.10 BA runs ‘ghost flights’ to train strike breaking cabin crew
28.02.10 Protest planned for Bristol Airport planning meeting
28.02.10 Prestwick Airport to celebrate anniversary of Elvis visit
28.02.10 Big fall in Ryanair flight punctuality
28.02.10 Flight to Heathrow cancelled after rat spotted in overhead lockers
28.02.10 Stansted gets new Asian restaurant
28.02.10 Cocaine find at Kent Airport
27.02.10 BA cabin crew back further negotiations
27.02.10 CAA report prompts calls to axe Belfast City Airport runway extension
27.02.10 Ryanair passenger eats €10,000 scratchcard
27.02.10 Private jet travel booming at Manchester Airport
27.02.10 Ryanair add extra Prestwick flights
27.02.10 Bristol Airport bus service to expand
26.02.10 Competition Commission loose BAA airport sale appeal bid
26.02.10 Norwich Airport passengers down 30%
26.02.10 BAA claims ‘huge support’ for Stansted expansion
26.02.10 Cargo plane emergency at Birmingham Airport
26.02.10 Newcastle – Oslo service for Ryanair
26.02.10 New Polish route for Liverpool Airport
25.02.10 Bristol Airport expansion recommended for approval
25.02.10 Passengers down 29% at Robin Hood Airport
25.02.10 Mayor urged to intervene over London City Airport expansion
25.02.10 Aer Arran switch flights from Prestwick to Glasgow Airport
25.02.10 150kg drugs haul at Heathrow
25.02.10 Flybe 500,000th Cardiff Airport passenger
24.02.10 Union will not announce BA strike dates during talks
24.02.10 O’Leary urges BA to take on union
24.02.10 Birmingham Airport passengers down 7.2%
24.02.10 GIP plan bonds issue to refinance Gatwick debt
24.02.10 BA in court again – this time over pilot holiday pay
24.02.10 Passengers sue over Manchester Airport gate injuries
24.02.10 Pair in court over drunken Dundee Airport break-in
24.02.10 Spectrum secure London City Airport contract
23.02.10 Conservatives ‘will block Stansted runway’
23.02.10 Birmingham Airport scanner blunder
23.02.10 Four day delay for Bristol Airport passengers
23.02.10 easyJet quick to capitalise on BA strike threat
23.02.10 Thomas Cook add Tunisia flights from Aberdeen Airport
23.02.10 BA hire new marketing chief
23.02.10 Successful Stansted hotel fundraiser
22.02.10 BAA losses up on pension costs and loss on Gatwick
22.02.10 BAA boss says Heathrow recovering quicker than European rivals
22.02.10 BA cabin crew vote to strike
22.02.10 Belfast Airport ‘third world’ facilities
22.02.10 Barr to build new Prestwick Airport hangar for Ryanair
22.02.10 Stansted maintenance company to close over easyJet cost cuts
22.02.10 Bristol Airport parking amongst the UK’s most expensive
21.02.10 BAA ‘more likely to sell Glasgow Airport’
21.02.10 3500 to help BA break strike
21.02.10 Edinburgh Airport M8 link road ‘unnecessary’
21.02.10 Snow closes Manchester and Birmingham Airports
21.02.10 Ryanair strands passengers on wrong Canary Island
21.02.10 UK airport parking most expensive in the world
20.02.10 Gatwick monorail to reopen ahead of schedule
20.02.10 Suspended sentence for drunk Heathrow pilot
20.02.10 Glasgow Airport launch Twitter service
20.02.10 Jet2 add Edinburgh – Majorca flights
20.02.10 easyBus cut Stansted transfer cost
20.02.10 New Birmingham Airport hotel
19.02.10 Unite lose BA high court challenge
19.02.10 Man charged over Robin Hood Airport twitter ‘bomb threat’
19.02.10 Heavy snow closes Birmingham Airport
19.02.10 Shareholder battle over easyJet boss ‘retention’ bonus
19.02.10 Roadworks to create dedicated Gatwick lane on M23
18.02.10 Liverpool Airport passengers down 8.1% in 2009
18.02.10 Sir Peter Rigby considers Coventry Airport
18.02.10 Etihad increase capacity on Manchester – Abu Dhabi route
18.02.10 S&P downgrade BA further
18.02.10 Spot checks on Bristol Airport taxis and car park busses
17.02.10 Heathrow runway judicial review next week
17.02.10 Flybe announce Belfast – Humberside flights
17.02.10 Heathrow boutique hotel to reopen after refit
17.02.10 Exeter Airport hotel plans revealed
16.02.10 Full body scanners may be unlawful
16.02.10 US turn back BA Mexico bound flight
16.02.10 World’s largest plane at Robin Hood Airport
16.02.10 IOM Airport passengers down 7%
16.02.10 CityJet carry 25,000th passenger on London City – Nantes route
15.02.10 Local firm interested in Coventry Airport takeover
15.02.10 Passengers up 0.2% at Bristol Airport
15.02.10 BA plans UK biofuel plant
15.02.10 Flybe announce Edinburgh – Kent flights
15.02.10 easyJet announce Liverpool – IOM flights
14.02.10 US immunity for BA / AA transatlantic alliance
14.02.10 Swiss firm pulls out of Coventry Airport deal
14.02.10 Passengers down at Gatwick Airport
14.02.10 London City Airport named top hub
14.02.10 Edinburgh Airport hotel upgrade complete
13.02.10 Cargo boost for Stansted Airport
13.02.10 Varsity announce Oxford – Newcastle flights
13.02.10 76 year old admits drugs smuggling
13.02.10 Servisair gain UK airport lounges
13.02.10 Thomas Cook add Manchester – Florida flights
There is a lot happening at UK airports at the moment. Heathrow airport, the worlds busiest international airport with 65.9 million passengers in 2009, received Government backing for a new runway (and sixth terminal), but this may change in 2010. It has started work on a new terminal called Heathrow East, which will eventually replace Terminal 2 (already closed) and Terminal 1. Gatwick Airport, the worlds busiest single runway airport (two terminals, but one runway), with 34.2 million passengers in 2008 continues to hope for a new runway in 2020 and was be sold in 2009 by BAA to GIP.
These two London airports still dominate in terms of flights and passenger numbers, but regional airports growing at a much faster rate. The two other large London Airports - Stansted Airport and Luton Airport - where the UK's original budget airline started - look set to grow at a steady rate in 2010. Stansted airport could still be the site the first of the UK's new runways some time after 2013, if it can get planning approval. Luton Airport scrapped plans for a new runway in 2008.
But it is at the the regional airports - led by Manchester, Birmingham (which had a record year in 2008), Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Bristol - where the growth was much more dramatic prior to the recession, and could be again if the economy picks up. These airports were transformed by the emergence budget airlines, all doubling in size over the last 10 years and aiming to double again over the next 10. Whether a return to economic growth will see this resume is doubtful.
These smaller UK airports were not content with with short haul routes, the larger regionals picking up inter-continental routes too, and many, including Belfast, Cardiff, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, East Midlands and Southampton have set increasing the number of routes they offer as a key target, even during the current recession.
Then there are smaller UK airports and even new airports looking for routes and local flights to a growing number of UK residents. Many, including Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Durham Tees Valley, Kent, London City, Norwich, Prestwick, Robin Hood have all set 1 million passengers a year as a target. None will achieve it this year, and some my even struggle as Coventry did in 2009.
These are interesting but chellenging times for UK airports. Keep up to date with all of the latest developments at uk-airport-news.info.
