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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: WheatleyRover on February 15, 2019, 08:54:57 am

Title: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 15, 2019, 08:54:57 am
What do we make of this guys, a customer notice on the boards at Doncaster Interchange for the 57c bus to Doncaster (sheffield) Airport has left Doncaster out of the name and just says 57c - Sheffield Airport (circle), here is the link to the article

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/doncaster-has-been-reduced-to-a-mere-satellite-town-1-9595097

Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: RedJ on February 15, 2019, 09:29:42 am
IT ISN'T EVEN IN f**kING SHEFFIELD f**k OFF
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Filo on February 15, 2019, 09:51:09 am
It pisses me off that Sheffield get everything, the Super tram is another example, Sheffield gets it and the rest of South Yorkshire pay for it
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 15, 2019, 09:51:22 am
I've sent a pissed off email demanding a response on why this has happened, i suggest we bombard them with E-mails, the people of Doncaster won't stand for this type of treatment
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 15, 2019, 09:53:08 am
https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/tellus/

Here's the link if you want to send them a pissed off email to.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Darren on February 15, 2019, 11:09:09 am
https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/tellus/

Here's the link if you want to send them a pissed off email to.
Just sent my email...
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: DonnyOsmond on February 15, 2019, 11:20:33 am
Ridiculous. People coming here see it as Donny airport. That'll confuse people thinking it's a different airport.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 15, 2019, 11:27:20 am
I said this would happen.No one listens to me.

Well I'm making a stand, THEY CAN GET FOOKED RIGHT OFF.

Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Filo on February 15, 2019, 12:01:19 pm
Whats going on the stand you’re making?
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Draytonian III on February 15, 2019, 12:13:32 pm
When you are waiting to travel back to it do many other airports refer to it as Doncaster/Sheffield ?
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 15, 2019, 12:18:57 pm
Yes they used to miss off Sheffield and just say Doncaster, but think most say Doncaster/Sheffield now, everyone refers to it as Doncaster or Donny airport anyway, there were a video the other year and everyone referred to it as Doncaster, apart from the guy interviewing said Sheffield Airport "accidently" when he started the interview, tosser he was
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 15, 2019, 03:05:20 pm
We should have a referendum and get control and identity of our town back, meaning what's ours is ours, even if it is in name only.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Iberian Red on February 15, 2019, 03:58:40 pm
Daft Kitson. You don't half talk some b*llocks
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 15, 2019, 06:13:03 pm
Iberian Red, do you wanna play a game? It's called f**k off, you start.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 15, 2019, 06:26:52 pm
Whats going on the stand you’re making?
Get your own f**king airport and don't balls it up like the last one.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 15, 2019, 06:27:42 pm
There will never be planes taking off and landing on Sheffield soil, that's just a fact
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Donnywolf on February 15, 2019, 06:54:52 pm
It pisses me off that Sheffield get everything, the Super tram is another example, Sheffield gets it and the rest of South Yorkshire pay for it

At least the nearest stop has come a few miles closer but your point is well made as usual  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: vaya on February 15, 2019, 07:15:15 pm
https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/tellus/

Here's the link if you want to send them a pissed off email to.

Pointless sending it to the PTE, they're not responsible for what goes on the front of buses.

Contact First directly.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: keith79 on February 15, 2019, 07:24:28 pm
The yellow notice has nothing to do with first.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: jonnydog on February 15, 2019, 07:39:53 pm
It’s the same most places, Barcelona-Girona airport is over 100km away from Barcelona. Venice-Treviso is about 45km from Venice.

It’s just how it is, I hope folk can get over it cos I already have... 1st world problems n’all that!
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: vaya on February 15, 2019, 07:45:57 pm
The yellow notice has nothing to do with first.

It'll have been pulled off the info when First re-registered the service. Having said that, it's probably a typo and means precisely nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: SydneyRover on February 15, 2019, 08:40:38 pm
Next thing they'll be saying that Robin Hood lived mainly in Nottinghamshire.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 15, 2019, 09:31:30 pm
So are you saying Doncaster Interchange has done this?
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: vaya on February 15, 2019, 09:42:49 pm
It doesn't matter who's done it. It's not a magic piece of paper. Leaving 'Doncaster' off of it doesn't relocate the Airport to Sheffield. It's still in Doncaster, people still have to travel to Doncaster to use it, they still fly into Doncaster, the investment it brings still ends up in Doncaster. It means nothing.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 15, 2019, 09:54:07 pm
I disagree, the name means everything, and i'm fed up of that second rate poor mans City thinking it's better than it is, there would be uproar in the town if they swapped the names around
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: vaya on February 15, 2019, 10:01:14 pm
Have they swapped the names, or has someone forgot to type something onto a piece of yellow paper you didn't know existed until you read the Free Press website?

What does it say on the front of the Airport - has that changed as well? Presumably Julie Dore's sneaking about with a massive bottle of Tippex?
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 16, 2019, 12:31:53 am
Ive never seen it referred to as sheffield abroad, either says Doncaster or Doncaster/Sheffield
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 16, 2019, 10:04:40 am
My lad was on the first flight from DONCASTER airport to Malta and when he saw the hotel flight information for the return journey giving the times of the 'Sheffield' flight, he crossed it out and put DONCASTER instead.

Soon it became known as Robin Hood airport, like some sort of neutral name, and then DONCASTER Sheffield. I reckon it's all been part of the transaction to change the name to Sheffield gradually.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: WheatleyRover on February 16, 2019, 10:44:08 am
It will never change to just Sheffield, the Doncaster public and Council would oppose it, It's on Doncaster land no where near Sheffield
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 16, 2019, 10:44:41 am
If it's of no importance what the airport is called, why change it?

I can understand Airports being called after more important, famous nearby places but Doncaster is more important than Sheffield. And, if it's not more famous it bloody well should be, and the reason for it not being is because we allow other places to pinch our heritage.
Title: Re: Airport notice
Post by: i_ateallthepies on February 16, 2019, 01:31:32 pm
I disagree, the name means everything, and i'm fed up of that second rate poor mans City thinking it's better than it is, there would be uproar in the town if they swapped the names around

Perhaps Wheatley Rover the sheffield public actually do realise their town isn't that good, which might explain why they want to claim one of Doncaster's jewels.