{"id":412879,"date":"2025-09-10T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412879\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:21:15","slug":"doncaster-sheffield-airport-a-step-closer-to-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412879\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncaster Sheffield Airport a step closer to reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doncaster Sheffield Airport could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c77dje6pkkyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">potentially reopen in 2027<\/a> after South Yorkshire council leaders green lighting initial funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They approved funding of nearly \u00a3160 million.<\/p>\n<p>However, the reopening will be for freight operations with passenger services relaunching in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority granted the funding and this year Munich Airport International was announced as the preferred operator to manage the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Regional mayor Oliver Coppard said: \u201cWe are cleared for take-off. It is a great day, but it is the end of the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a load of work to do now to get the airport back up and running and to build that sustainable aviation and advanced manufacturing hub.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The airport closed in 2022 and was served predominantly by leisure airlines offering sunshine holiday flights.<\/p>\n<p>Coppard says reopening the airport would generate about 5,000 jobs, and add about \u00a35 billionn to the economy over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s got to be about what it contributes to economic growth, our ambitions, world class industries and broader opportunities with aviation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves added: \u201cThis is a huge milestone for businesses and communities across South Yorkshire delivering better connections, jobs and economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related News Stories: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelmole.com\/partners_zone\/visit-britain-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit Britain &#8211; TravelMole<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0                         <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doncaster Sheffield Airport could potentially reopen in 2027 after South Yorkshire council leaders green lighting initial funding. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115179505938232086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}