Southend, for example, wants to build a new terminal and runway and go from 1.4m to 10m by 2030, and Manchester’s £1bn plans are expected to see an extra 10 million passengers pass through its gates by the end of the decade.The government in its draft 2050 Aviation Strategy says it supports the growth of aviation, provided that growth takes place in a sustainable way, with actions to mitigate the environmental impacts.The air quality impacts of these could be profound. To meet the ‘ongoing demand for air travel’, Stanstead is investing £600m to boost capacity and improve facilities.However, plans for new £150m arrivals terminal were put on hold in 2019.Earlier this month, the High Court rejected the Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE) appeal against the decision to allow Uttlesford District Council (UDC) to review the airport’s expansion.Andrew Lambourne, of Luton and District Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise, said the expansion was ‘unethical’ with the owners ‘driven to maximise capacity for Luton regardless of the environmental impact.’Last month protesters from Extinction Rebellion marched from the airport into the town to protest against the expansion.Luton Aiport says any expansion will consider the environmental impact as an ‘absolute priority’.There are £480m plans to expand London’s most central airport, which will see eight new aircraft stands built, and extensions to its terminal that will see it quadruple in size.Controversially, the airport has proposed to loosen flight restrictions that would allow flights to run through the night on weekends.Figures from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) reveal that noise pollution from the airport affects 74,000 people – an amount exceeded only by Heathrow and Manchester airports.Get the latest air quality news delivered straight to your inboxThe UK's air quality and emissions news and information siteProposals include a £300m new train station with East Coast links from Doncaster Rail Station, which they claim will reduce CO2 emissions from cars by 23,000 tonnes.Belfast Airport has been rated the ‘UK’s worst’ by travellers, but its owners say that ‘money is no object’ to growing the hub and bringing in new routes. Plans behind the £39.1million Glasgow Airport Investment Area project have also been submitted to Renfrewshire planning officials. Last year, they abandoned plans to build an additional runway but instead will bring the airport’s emergency runway into use.However, they still want to safeguard land in case their new runway plans get resurrected in the future.In 2018, the owners of Aberdeen Airport urged every Scottish MP to vote in favour of plans to expand Heathrow, warning them that it if it doesn’t go ahead it could cost Aberdeen thousands of flights and hit the local economy.
The majority are planning for growth well above the 25% recommended by the IPCC. They said last year: ‘At a time when we need to be having serious conversations about how we are going to seriously reduce air travel, any talk of expansion is utterly at odds with physical reality, and what science tells us must be done to avoid a planet-wide catastrophe!’Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) wants to demolish their current 1960s terminal and replace it with a modern, £150m facility.The terminal currently deals with about four million passengers annually but the airport hopes to increase numbers to seven million over 10 years.LBA said the proposal would support the region’s economic growth, but it’s proved politically unpopular, with Leeds MP Alex Sobel coming out against the plans. The addition of the new A320 aircraft will create around 50 jobs for Glasgow-based flight, cabin and ground crew. “To do this we also need to address the current constraints, such as motorway congestion and delivering the planned rail link, to help realise our plans for growth.”He adds that building the planned rail link is crucial for the airport and the wider region. EasyJet has revealed expansion plans at Glasgow Airport today, welcoming a fifth Airbus A320 to the Scottish base and announcing a new route between Glasgow and Birmingham. In spite of the fact that the UK has the third-highest CO2-emitting aviation sector in the world, after China and the United States, our taste for air travel shows no signs of slowing down.
They also want to build an extra 7,400 additional car parking spaces to cope with future demand.Newquay airport new passenger terminal site, but its ambitions go higher than 36,000 ft. Planned developments include improving the …
2018 passenger numbers: 9.7 million. To foster further growth, UPS is building a new £114m facility at the site will double the size of their current operation.
“Without pre-empting the publication, it is likely to include major investment in expanding terminal and airfield facilities, the new cargo and maintenance hub, and plans to improve our surface transport infrastructure.