This controversial UK airport that’s been closed for years could reopen in 2026

A determination airport, which erstwhile had a alternatively arguable name, mightiness beryllium reopening — with flights perchance mounting disconnected arsenic soon arsenic Spring 2026. 

Yorkshire’s Doncaster Sheffield Airport antecedently serviced thousands of passengers each twelvemonth but has been closed since November 2022.

At the clip its owners, Peel Group, claimed it was nary longer financially viable to support it open, but it looks similar it’s headed towards a revival arsenic a caller relation has been identified. 

Negotiations are ongoing, but Ros Jones, the politician of Doncaster, has claimed the improvement is simply a ‘major milestone’ successful helping to reopen the ‘beloved airport’. 

‘Reopening our airdrome is my fig 1 priority, and I americium delighted to denote that we person reached the large milestone of identifying the bidder to assistance america reopen our beloved airport. This existent measurement successful the reopening process is surely large news,’ she said.

‘Our proposition is not conscionable an airdrome but volition beryllium a hub for sustainable aviation-related industry. South Yorkshire Airport City – the programme to reopen the airdrome – has unthinkable potential, to bring jobs and prosperity to Doncaster and the wider South Yorkshire region.’

The politician added that she would merchandise details of who has been appointed erstwhile she can, and to ‘rest assured we are moving arsenic hard arsenic imaginable to get the airdrome reopened’.

The South Yorkshire Airport City task could bring 5,000 caller jobs and £6.6billion to the area, Doncaster Council said. However, they went connected to pass that are inactive a ‘series of milestones to beryllium delivered to guarantee the airdrome is afloat operational for rider flights successful 2026’. 

For instance, the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) has been asked to merchandise a £3million fiscal bundle to spell towards preparing the airport, and the reinstatement of airspace is presently nether information by the Civil Aviation Authority. 

Doncaster Sheffield Airport was archetypal opened arsenic Finningley Airfield successful 1915 and was a basal for the Royal Flying Corps to intercept concern cities of Northern England. 

The airfield was aboriginal utilized for grooming purposes successful World War II and for nuclear-armed Vulcan bombers during the Cold War, earlier being decommissioned successful 1995. 

Twenty years later, it reopened arsenic a commercialized airdrome nether the sanction Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport, overmuch to the disorder of the radical 41 miles distant successful Nottingham. 

The metropolis famously claims the legendary English figure, yet the inclusion of the sanction was reportedly owed to the archetypal legends being acceptable successful Barnsdale Forest, an country of South Yorkshire which surrounded Doncaster and Pontefract. 

So arguable was the name, however, that a petition started to reason it and was signed by implicit 10,000 people. In 2016, the airdrome rebranded to Doncaster Sheffield Airport. 

The past inbound formation to the airdrome was connected November 4, 2022, astatine 9:15pm, from Egypt and the last commercialized formation to permission the airdrome was November 5 astatine 12:15am, headed for Manchester.

The airdrome flew to arsenic galore arsenic 50 destinations successful Europe, with its main operators being TUI and Wizz Air. It isn’t wide whether Wizz Air volition beryllium returning upon its reopening. 

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