English airport that hopes to restart passenger flights reveals plans for new £616k terminal 

A UK airdrome has revealed its plans for a caller £600k terminal - with hopes it could pb to scheduled flights again.

Blackpool Airport operated flights to Europe backmost successful 2012, flying to 7 destinations successful Spain and Portugal.

Sadly the rider terminal was demolished successful 2016.

But a caller £616,000 terminal is acceptable to spell ahead, with the works fixed to contractor.

The caller terminal volition see a larger accomplishment and departure lounge, arsenic good arsenic caller information and baggage equipment.

It hopes that the caller additions volition let the airdrome to invited larger flights successful the next fewer year.

This is acceptable to beryllium initially backstage charters to UK football teams, local media confirmed.

And successful the adjacent 3 to 5 years, a caller intent built installation volition regenerate the terminal permanently, connected the westbound broadside of the airport.

It says: “The caller larger installation besides gives the airdrome the quality to ‘test’ the marketplace successful respect of the enquires received for further enforcement and scheduled flights, which volition let the improvement of the caller intent built premises to beryllium designed and constructed with a greater level of detail.”

While the the airport's managing manager Steve Peters said it was "unlikely" to hap successful the adjacent future, it is hoped this could besides mean larger scheduled flights, specified arsenic home routes.

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh previously said they would "absolutely look if determination is an appetite for commercialized flights from Blackpool Airport and determination is the request there".

In the mean time, locals successful Blackpool's nearest airdrome is Liverpool, astir 30 miles away.

Having archetypal opened successful 1909, the airdrome closed backmost successful 2014, earlier being bought aboriginal that year.

It past operated routes to Isle of Man and Belfast successful 2015.

Just 39,000 flights operated from Blackpool Airport past year, chiefly for flying lessons and backstage flights.

Blackpool Airport isn't the lone UK airdrome acceptable to relaunch flights.

Doncaster Sheffield could restart flights in the adjacent 18 months, aft being forced to adjacent successful 2022.

TUI has expressed involvement successful launching flights again, which could beryllium to Cyprus, Spain and Poland.

A spokesperson antecedently said: "We're excited astir actively engaging with stakeholders astir a imaginable re-opening".

Kent's Manston Airport besides wanted to relaunch flights, though would initially beryllium cargo planes earlier starring to rider flights.

And Plymouth Airport has besides expressed hopes to 1 time person commercialized flights.