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Doncaster Airport closed after minor mishap leaves 747 stranded

14/07/2020 Written by: UK Aviation News < 1 minute read

Doncaster Sheffield Airport will reportedly be closed for flights until after 0600hrs tomorrow due to a small runway excursion by a Boeing 747 Freighter. No one was injured in the incident, which happened as the aircraft was backtracking (taxiing) along the runway after landing, but the aircraft will take some [read more]

Doncaster Sheffield Airport re-opens with Wizz Air flights

01/07/2020 Written by: UK Aviation News < 1 minute read

Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA/EGCN) is officially open again from today as Wizz Air resumes operations from the Northern regional airport. Wizz Air will operate 3 flights from the airport today to Riga, Krakow and Vilnius first flight leaving at 17:55 local time. The airport has put in place strict measures [read more]

TUI rolls out big summer 2020 upgrades from UK regional airports

22/10/2019 Written by: Nick Harding < 1 minute read

TUI UK has announced a raft of new destinations and flights from UK regional airports including Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Bournemouth and Manchester for Summer 2020. The announcements come as the UK’s leading holiday company embarks on its biggest summer season ever with an extra 2 million seats available across the [read more]

Doncaster Airport is best small UK airport for 3rd year running

17/09/2019 Written by: Nick Harding < 1 minute read

Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA/EGCN) is celebrating after topping the Which? Best & Worst Airport list for the third year in a row in the under 10 million passengers category. The Airport scored highly in the survey which showed that 97% of passengers would recommend the airport and the airport had [read more]

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Flybe to close Cardiff & Doncaster bases and cull Exeter

03/04/2019 Written by: Nick Harding 4 minute read

Flybe is to close its ejet bases at Cardiff (CWL/EGFF), Doncaster (DSA/EGCN) Airports and end ejet flights from Exeter (EXT/EGTE) and Norwich Airports (NWI/EGSH) at the end of Summer 2019. In documents seen by us, the airline has told its pilots that the decision follows a “critical review of the [read more]

Doncaster Sheffield Airport gets long-haul route for S19

26/03/2018 Written by: Roger Davis < 1 minute read

Last week we reported that the Peel Group chairman hinted that Doncaster Sheffield Airport was about to get its first long-haul route and now, UK holiday company TUI has confirmed it. TUI will start flying to Orlando Sanford, Florida using a Boeing 787 Dreamliner for Summer 2019. Orlando is the [read more]

Doncaster Sheffield Airport hints at Long-Haul route

21/03/2018 Written by: Lisa Parkes < 1 minute read

The chairman of Peel Group, owners of Doncaster Sheffield Airport, has hinted that the airport has attracted a long-haul operator and said an announcement is due next week. Speaking at the launch of a campaign for a Railway Station at the airport, Robert Hough said the company had invested £200m into [read more]