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Aberdeen Airport Hotels |
Newcastle Airport started life on the 26th July 1935, it had a grass runway, a club house, a hangar, workshops, an ambulance room, a hose for petrol and a garage. It cost just £35,000. The first scheduled service calling here flew between Croydon and Perth, Scotland, operated by North Eastern Airways using Rapide and 8-seater Airspeed Envoy aircraft. It had its first appointed Airport manager in 1952, Jim Denyer’s number-one aim was to put Newcastle on the map. By mid-1954 scheduled services totalled some 35 per week, but it was the 1960’s when people were heading off by air on sunshine holidays that brought the boom in passenger numbers. As well as meeting their needs, the Airport was now carving out a major role in encouraging business and development in the North East of England. It was in April 1963 as a co-ordinated response that the leading local authorities in the region came together to form the North East Regional Airport Committee. They appointed a firm of consulting engineers to draw up development plans and 18 months later work began. A new runway and apron was developed, regraded, strengthened and extended to its present length of 2332 metres. By the mid 70’s however the airport terminal building was now bulging and in 1978, the Government, in its White Paper on Airports Policy, designated Newcastle Airport as a Category B regional airport. Extension plans were put into action and building work started in July 1980. By the time Jim Denyer retired in 1989, 1.6 million passengers passed through Newcastle Airport. Such success required an additional 2400 surface-level car-parking spaces and the extended and improved terminal building which was opened on the 26th May 1994 by the Princess Royal. The Airport has come a long way since then. It has entered a major period of growth and investment which aims to deliver on of the most innovative and successful UK airports. Notably a £27 million terminal extension completed in January 2000. Number of passengers: 3 million |
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