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lysander Operations Manager Posts: 3,344	CAA passenger survey Nov 11, 2011 13:50:37 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lysander on Nov 11, 2011 13:50:37 GMT Amongst the" little gems" in this years survey...which includes DSA... are the unsurprising facts that of all those airports surveyed, DSA is the lowest, as a percentage, for business travel but has the highest percentage of leisure passengers... and @46.9% is the airport with the highest percentage of male leisure passengers! All fascinating stuff www.caa.co.uk/docs/81/2010CAAPaxSurveyReport.pdf
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elvis Driver Posts: 336	CAA passenger survey Nov 14, 2011 9:18:15 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by elvis on Nov 14, 2011 9:18:15 GMT No surprise with the complete lack of business travelers. They have different requirements to the leisure traveler & is something that DSA has failed to provide. When Peel & Sheffield City Council closed down Sheffield City Airport they effectively turned their back on the business traveler in South Yorkshire. This probably reinforces the view of many that when "politicians" dabble in business, it usually ends up being a disaster!

lysander Operations Manager Posts: 3,344	CAA passenger survey Nov 14, 2011 11:21:20 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lysander on Nov 14, 2011 11:21:20 GMT I think our local politicians were presented with the possibility of a truly international airport...with real potential to rival Manchester and with the massive boost to the local economy this development would allow. The price of this was to give open support for Peel's proposals at the Public Enquiry and, of course,permitting and enabling the closure of SCA with minimal opposition or, indeed, questioning! Some elected representatives were so myopic as to be unable to see the lost opportunities SCA offered to the relatively small but, nontheless, vital business travelling community and welcomed ,with open arms, as I was recently told by a Councillor, the prospect of DSA being used by long -haul jets with passengers transferring to a fast, electrified rail link with the Capital...." They could be in Central London as quickly as via Heathrow or Gatwick"...as I was told! All really sad!

elvis Driver Posts: 336	CAA passenger survey Nov 19, 2011 9:50:26 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by elvis on Nov 19, 2011 9:50:26 GMT Nov 14, 2011 11:21:20 GMT lysander said: I think our local politicians were presented with the possibility of a truly international airport...with real potential to rival Manchester and with the massive boost to the local economy this development would allow. The price of this was to give open support for Peel's proposals at the Public Enquiry and, of course,permitting and enabling the closure of SCA with minimal opposition or, indeed, questioning! Some elected representatives were so myopic as to be unable to see the lost opportunities SCA offered to the relatively small but, nontheless, vital business travelling community and welcomed ,with open arms, as I was recently told by a Councillor, the prospect of DSA being used by long -haul jets with passengers transferring to a fast, electrified rail link with the Capital...." They could be in Central London as quickly as via Heathrow or Gatwick"...as I was told! All really sad! Didn't this breach competition rules?

lysander Operations Manager Posts: 3,344	CAA passenger survey Nov 19, 2011 10:39:57 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lysander on Nov 19, 2011 10:39:57 GMT The competition rules obviously didn't apply in South Yorkshire!

mainline Operations Director The duckies are spreading... Posts: 6,379	CAA passenger survey Nov 23, 2011 11:50:40 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mainline on Nov 23, 2011 11:50:40 GMT Nov 11, 2011 13:50:37 GMT lysander said: Amongst the" little gems" in this years survey...which includes DSA... are the unsurprising facts that of all those airports surveyed, DSA is the lowest, as a percentage, for business travel but has the highest percentage of leisure passengers... and @46.9% is the airport with the highest percentage of male leisure passengers! All fascinating stuff www.caa.co.uk/docs/81/2010CAAPaxSurveyReport.pdf Interesting report there Lysander. No surprise about the business travel from the airport, although I must say the leisure travel figures do make for interesting reading, particularly so, since it lists DSA as been one of the highest. Now it just goes to show that we need better routes that cater for business travellers and hopefully, this can start to be addressed and achieved in the medium-long term.
	Qwack, Qwack, Qwack - What a Ducky day...

elvis Driver Posts: 336	CAA passenger survey Nov 23, 2011 17:25:44 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by elvis on Nov 23, 2011 17:25:44 GMT It would take a brave (or stupid) Airline Chairman to invest money in DSA for business travelers. Airlines have come & tried to develop routes but have failed. Passenger figures continue to decline which is hardly a good selling point! With surveys showing more & more holidaymakers planning stay-cations due to the economy, things can only get worse.

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