But there is another vote next month on whether the funds should be released.<\/p>\n
In December 2024, a smaller plane became the first aircraft to land<\/a> at the airport since its closure in November 2022.<\/p>\n The plane is usually flying around the world to attend oil spills [BBC]<\/p>\n Foster said he was “relieved” to see large jets landing at the airport again.<\/p>\n “What an amazing moment,” he said.<\/p>\n “Amazing for the airport, for 2Excel, and also for the community. Absolutely brilliant.”<\/p>\n Christian Foster, Doncaster Sheffield Airport’s programme director, said the whole team was ‘proud’ to see the landing and it was an ‘amazing moment’ for all involved [BBC]<\/p>\n He said the energy could be seen among the 50 flight staff on site.<\/p>\n “This is a great day,” he said.<\/p>\n “This is a history day.”<\/p>\n Foster said the landing marked a further step towards rebuilding the DSA team and said the airport had started to make “key decisions”.<\/p>\n “Yeah, this is huge,” he added.<\/p>\n 2Excel has about 650 employees in total, with about 200 people currently based in Doncaster fulfilling a variety of roles, such as engineering and operations.<\/p>\n Andy Offer, 2Excel Aviation chief executive, said: “We’re pleased to bring this aircraft back to Doncaster, our main operating base and where the 727 oil spill response fleet was stationed before the airport’s closure.<\/p>\n “We have always maintained a strong presence here, even during the period it has been closed.<\/p>\n “It is a strategically important site for 2Excel and we continue to work with the team at FlyDoncaster Ltd to ensure we have a long and successful future at DSA.”<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, catch up with the latest episode of Look North<\/a><\/p>\n More on this story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first large jet to land at Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) since its closure in 2022 has touched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11680,17,11678,11677,11679],"class_list":["post-23418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-2excel-aviation","tag-canada","tag-christian-foster","tag-doncaster-sheffield-airport","tag-dsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Inside](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2de00ad73069f26b07ee2208e4944c41.jpeg\"\/)
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