The airport is due to close this week
During the First World War it was used as a base by the Royal Flying Corps and in the Second World War the airfield was mainly used for training purposes. At that time it served as a finishing school for new crews of the aircraft in Bomber Command.served 899,000 travellers almost making its target of at least a million of passengers, making it the 23rd largest airport in the UK at the time and by August 2007, the new airport had assisted 2.28 million passengers.
In June 2022, Wizz Air announced that it would terminate the majority of its flights from the airport as the airport operators were ‘unable to guarantee the terms of its commercial agreement.; the last outbound flight took off at 10.55am on Saturday, October 29 for Katowice in Poland and the last arrival, from Hurghada in Egypt, is due to touch down at 9.15pm on Friday, November 4 with the terminal officially closing to passengers at 7am on Saturday, November 5.
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