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Will Sheffield pay the bill too?



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Published Date: 08 October 2008
A FEW years ago Peel Holdings which owns and runs the airport at Finningley, chose to ignore local public opinion regarding the airport's name.
Showing such disdain for Doncaster's image, it included Sheffield in the title to give it some gravitas. Are we therefore to assume that the troubled airport's management will now go cap in hand to Sheffield rate payers to bail them out as well?

Doncaster's residents including their council might have been a little more sympathetic to Peel's hardship appeal if they had shown a little more respect and regard for the local population's opinion in the first place. I would dearly like to see "Doncaster International Airport" succeed. Incidentally, the airline Flybe, which advertises almost daily its airport destinations in the national press, has changed Finningley Airport's name from Doncaster Sheffield to simply Doncaster.

Is anyone really surprised?

G Wilson, Oakdale Close, Edenthorpe



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Donny Bri,

09/10/2008 20:17:47
Well said G Wilson, I have been on this crusade, since the announcment of the name. All Sheffield seem to do is critise Doncaster and poke so called fun at us, through BBC radio Sheffield {which I do not listen too} and BBC Look North, which I have e mailed on numerouse occasions about this subject.
Like you I take my hat off to Flybe, for thier support in doing this.
Each time I fly from the airport, I make sure I fill in the questionair, stating they should change the name to, simply Doncaster Airport.
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