|
|
Post by lysander on Mar 16, 2013 8:56:18 GMT
Another record breaker...for all the wrong reasons. Just 29,211 passengers went through the terminal. This is down 15.9% and is the worst ever month since opening!
|
 |
|
|
|
Post by mainline on Mar 23, 2013 11:57:22 GMT
Another record breaker...for all the wrong reasons. Just 29,211 passengers went through the terminal. This is down 15.9% and is the worst ever month since opening! The news coming out of DSA at the minute just seems to be getting worse and worse. Can't see it been long before it follows suit of Sheffield City. It desperately requires the FARRRS scheme to start within the next year, otherwise I dare say it, and we may not have an airport in South Yorkshire anymore. The figure quoted above of 29,211 is really shocking. Are there any commercial airports in the UK that are worse or even close to this figure at DSA? |
|
|
|
|
Post by humberside on Mar 23, 2013 13:07:05 GMT
Quite a few airports with less passengers than DSA. But passengers are not the only measure of an airports viability
|
|
|
|
|
Post by lysander on Mar 23, 2013 16:07:54 GMT
No, that's true. But with freight traffic still at a very low level then , on a purely aviation basis, the Airport is not achieving , by a very long way,what it promised. A European Grant of some £15 millions was given on the basis of it achieving 2.33 million passengers in 2008. It didn't, and by a large margin , subsequent years have seen its performance on a downward spiral ever since.
However, if we look at the Airport and the Business Park then we see a potentially very different scenario. What a pity the contractual requirement of SCA to be subsidised by its associated Business Park was ignored in the assessment of viability.
What is so amazing is that all of the negative input/predictions made at the Public Enquiry were ignored and what is even more amazing is how accurate these predictions have turned out to be.
FARRRS is a different matter. It was always predicted that better access would be needed but after it is built and with 2.7 miles still to be covered by existing roads and only a saving of a few miles, one wonders if that will make up for the Sheffield City region being relatively sparsely populated , that the airport is at the extremities of the City Region and that even from its major conurbation, other airports with existing services are easy to access.The only new traffic DSA has generated has been with Wizzair and they could quite easily have made HUY their destination had DSA not made them a deal they couldn't ignore.
This was why the small airport at Sheffield was built...to serve a niche market which DSA has failed to meet and was predicted so to do with its reliance on the lo-co model...learned from the early success at LPL.
|
|
|
