Doncaster airport

[danumdon]

You would think that a rational business decision would be made with regard to Peel. If the offer on the table is "above market value" and with the Council looking to make every future step they take fraught with litigation and the possibility of sitting on an asset they cannot capitalise then the sensible thing would be to take the money and run.

But then we are talking a true business predator who have been in situations where a similar outcome is possible and have been successful in getting their way, money and friends in high places will always help.

Praise should be given to all interested parties who have managed to get it this far, even if it ultimately fails.

My opinion of certain political individuals has been reviewed for the better.

[Sprotyrover]

Don’t know how true this is, posted on an aviation forum

Usually a good source PPRUNE

[phil o sophical]

How ironic that 10,000 tonnes of air freight that used to go through DSA is now going to Teeside airport, once owned by Peel and bought by the local council after Peel decided it wasn't viable

[SydneyRover]

There's a bit more here on that, thanks for posting phil.

''Two Boeing 727's owned by 2Excel Aviation and operating on behalf of Oil Spill Response Limited were relocated to Teesside Airport from Doncaster Sheffield Airport in November 2022. The aircraft are deployed anywhere in the world in the event of a major oil spill to spray dispersant material.[65]''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesside_International_Airport

[DonnyOsmond]

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/transport/doncaster-sheffield-airport-doncaster-council-offered-lease-by-owners-peel-to-run-airport-which-closed-in-2022-4088389

[Bentley Bullet]

As previously reported!

https://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=287572.0

[Guernsey Exile]

125 year lease signed!

[Dagenham Rover]

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKDONCO/bulletins/391c699

[Filo]

125 year lease signed!

Nick Fletcher will be outside the terminal building with his camera taking the credit as we speak

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Massive news, sooner we get this open again the better.

[Bentley Bullet]

125 year lease signed!

Nick Fletcher will be outside the terminal building with his camera taking the credit as we speak

I'd be more surprised if Angela Rayner doesn't get the credit following her visit to Bentley the other night.

[danumdon]

Massive praise to Ros Jones who diligently stuck to the plan and was determined to see this through, looks like its going to come good for her, so a big well done to her.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Really great news and let's hope the new operator can deliver on it's potential and in time, the folk of South Yorkshire see it as their first choice when possible.

In addition, let's hope the ECML connection is made which should make it one of the best connected airports. both for leisure and business.

[drfchound]

I have no idea what Nick Fletcher did or didn’t do with regards getting the deal over the line but I can remember him highlighting quite a few times on the news that the airport should be reopened.
He did keep it in vogue.

[Sprotyrover]

Praise to Ros Jones and Nik Fletcher.
Oliver in the Buses showed his ineptitude when he
Sat back and let Peel close it down, he then took months to realise he had undermined the City status of Doncaster got the whole Mayoral region downgraded in comparison to all the other plates which have Airports, he really made himself look second rate compared to Burnham and Brabhum and Co!
As for Nilliband! He has done absolutely nothing together with Dame Rosie!

[tommy toes]

I have no idea what Nick Fletcher did or didn’t do with regards getting the deal over the line but I can remember him highlighting quite a few times on the news that the airport should be reopened.
He did keep it in vogue.

He obviously led the whole thing hound.
It wasn't Ros Jones and her cabinet that worked hard for months on end to see this result, and threatening Peel with a CPO, it was Nick having his photo taken outside the Airport that did the trick.
I'm sure he was right when he wrote that the Council had closed it in the first place.
You can't trust them hound, you old wind up merchant.
Vote T.... Oh I forgot.

[Donnywolf]

125 year lease signed!

Nick Fletcher will be outside the terminal building with his camera taking the credit as we speak

Probably using an old photo with Planes in the background

Anyway that said I think this should be an apolitical topic on here

Personally I don't care who has done what or not done what to get us back to this point , and as bfyp posted just above  :

Massive news, sooner we get this open again the better.

[drfchound]

I have no idea what Nick Fletcher did or didn’t do with regards getting the deal over the line but I can remember him highlighting quite a few times on the news that the airport should be reopened.
He did keep it in vogue.

He obviously led the whole thing hound.
It wasn't Ros Jones and her cabinet that worked hard for months on end to see this result, and threatening Peel with a CPO, it was Nick having his photo taken outside the Airport that did the trick.
I'm sure he was right when he wrote that the Council had closed it in the first place.
You can't trust them hound, you old wind up merchant.
Vote T.... Oh I forgot.

Tommy, Tommy, you nearly forgot I am in your team now.
You are stretching it a bit, suggesting that I said he had done the whole job himself.
All I said was that he kept it in vogue by speaking publicly about it reopening.

[Herbert Anchovy]

I must admit, I never thought in a million years that the airport would reopen. I can’t imagine how difficult the negotiations must have been.
How might it affect local council taxes though?

Well done to Donny Council for turning this around. They’ve definitely pulled this out the bag.

[Herbert Anchovy]

Praise to Ros Hines and Nik Fletcher.
Oliver in the Buses showed his ineptitude when he
Sat back and let Peel close it down, he then took months to realise he had undermined the City status of Doncaster got the whole Mayoral region downgraded in ComoAriin to all the other plates which have Airports, he really made himself look second rate compared to Burnham and Brabhum and Co!
As for Nilliband! He has done absolutely nothing together with Dame Rosie!

To be fair, I’ve seen Milliband on TV twice talking about the airport and how reopening it is vital for the local economy. Maybe we watch different TV channels?

[phil o sophical]

Won't have far to go to catch the plane when Grant gets us into Europe then

[Donnywolf]

Big up to Truss who promised when PM she would ensure that DSA would be reopened

She might have f****d us over in the grand scheme of things but by god she can keep a promise

Apolitical to the last that's me. Get the place open.

[ravenrover]

Really great news and let's hope the new operator can deliver on it's potential and in time, the folk of South Yorkshire see it as their first choice when possible.

In addition, let's hope the ECML connection is made which should make it one of the best connected airports. both for leisure and business.

Don't forget East Mids as well. Yes we've got E Mids airport but Donny is by far the best I've flown from

[Dagenham Rover]

I have laughed at some of the reporting on this great news totally inaccurate   Doncaster Council has no experience in running an Airport, errrm they know that hence the other discussions with experienced operators and by the bits Ive read/seen they are pretty close to a deal with a successful European airport operator and investors, Oh LBA and Manchester are only 30/40 miles away errrm try getting to them from Donny and the surrounds, Theres Humberside airport just up the way, yes they have a great choice of flights ................ They will need to attract lts of low cost operators to start with yes But Peel deliberately had a modus operandi that would ensure the "airport" would never make a profit, so many intertwined Peel owned companies all paper shuffling invoices around charging each other extortionate fees ......................   

[Sprotyrover]

I have no idea what Nick Fletcher did or didn’t do with regards getting the deal over the line but I can remember him highlighting quite a few times on the news that the airport should be reopened.
He did keep it in vogue.

He obviously led the whole thing hound.
It wasn't Ros Jones and her cabinet that worked hard for months on end to see this result, and threatening Peel with a CPO, it was Nick having his photo taken outside the Airport that did the trick.
I'm sure he was right when he wrote that the Council had closed it in the first place.
You can't trust them hound, you old wind up merchant.
Vote T.... Oh I forgot.

What Fletcher did was continuously lobby the local Labour Mayor Coppard to utilise funding streams he has access to due to devolution to the tune of £2.4 billion. Coppard did his level best to claim he had no such resources and in any case could not spend a penny on the Airport, it got to the point where the Government had to step in and tell Coppard that he could spend his funds on reopening the Airport! Ollie the wally actually tried to play politics and went on to claim the Government was preventing him from spending £30 million allocated for the construction of a Rail link into DSA.
It was all a bit embarrassing really, as he had hoisted himself by his own Petard by failing to lend Peel £20 million which caused them to close it, He has gradually realised that he had undermined the City of Doncaster and also severely reduced his own place in the Pecking order of other Northern Mayors, such as Burnham and co. He had walked into a job where he was a lower Premiership manager and by his own stupidity and lack of foresight he lowered his status to a lowly league 2 manager, South Yorkshhire had under his tenure moved from being a large Metropolitain region boasting its own international Airport boasting an 800 acre advanced engineering business park(Gate way East) to the only Metropolitan area without an
Airport! Plus any interest in companies thinking about moving onto Gateway East had wilted. Thankfully those pesky Tories have made the area a development zone and provided £160 worth of funding ..how dare they!

[SydneyRover]

Not sure if this is relevant sprot?

Oliver Coppard

''For the record this is the letter I sent requesting the change, so we could use the £30M for the reopening costs at DSA, rather than for the proposed rail link.

I would certainly consider this a sufficiently formal request''

https://twitter.com/olivercoppard/status/1749789542217912402

[SydneyRover]

Or this:

''South Yorkshire’s Mayor, Oliver Coppard, has announced that the region will take a major step toward re-opening Doncaster-Sheffield Airport (DSA) and allow for a 10-year plan to drive economic growth in Doncaster, subject to the decision of the Mayoral Combined Authority Board on 13 February 2024''

https://southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk/news/article/2b1a1a33-b81d-421b-a9d1-d9e86547d585

[Filo]

I have no idea what Nick Fletcher did or didn’t do with regards getting the deal over the line but I can remember him highlighting quite a few times on the news that the airport should be reopened.
He did keep it in vogue.

He obviously led the whole thing hound.
It wasn't Ros Jones and her cabinet that worked hard for months on end to see this result, and threatening Peel with a CPO, it was Nick having his photo taken outside the Airport that did the trick.
I'm sure he was right when he wrote that the Council had closed it in the first place.
You can't trust them hound, you old wind up merchant.
Vote T.... Oh I forgot.

What Fletcher did was continuously lobby the local Labour Mayor Coppard to utilise funding streams he has access to due to devolution to the tune of £2.4 billion. Coppard did his level best to claim he had no such resources and in any case could not spend a penny on the Airport, it got to the point where the Government had to step in and tell Coppard that he could spend his funds on reopening the Airport! Ollie the wally actually tried to play politics and went on to claim the Government was preventing him from spending £30 million allocated for the construction of a Rail link into DSA.
It was all a bit embarrassing really, as he had hoisted himself by his own Petard by failing to lend Peel £20 million which caused them to close it, He has gradually realised that he had undermined the City of Doncaster and also severely reduced his own place in the Pecking order of other Northern Mayors, such as Burnham and co. He had walked into a job where he was a lower Premiership manager and by his own stupidity and lack of foresight he lowered his status to a lowly league 2 manager, South Yorkshhire had under his tenure moved from being a large Metropolitain region boasting its own international Airport boasting an 800 acre advanced engineering business park(Gate way East) to the only Metropolitan area without an
Airport! Plus any interest in companies thinking about moving onto Gateway East had wilted. Thankfully those pesky Tories have made the area a development zone and provided £160 worth of funding ..how dare they!

Thats just b*llocks and you know it

[i_ateallthepies]

For someone who considers himself to be a historian he doesn't do facts, our Sprotty.

[Sprotyrover]

Not sure if this is relevant sprot?

Oliver Coppard

''For the record this is the letter I sent requesting the change, so we could use the £30M for the reopening costs at DSA, rather than for the proposed rail link.

I would certainly consider this a sufficiently formal request''

https://twitter.com/olivercoppard/status/1749789542217912402

Not relevant he was put in his place prior to that