Howling Laud Hope – the Monster Raving Looney william Hill party candidate was in town today distributing leaflets and campaigning to rename Southampton International Airport after Benny Hill. Matthew Myatt investigates…
The Southampton Airport Community Fund has made a donation to the Mansbridge Community Orchard for the purchase of apple harvesting and cider making equipment. The orchard, which is close to the airport, is currently badly overgrown, but with several different varieties of eating and cooking apples in it, is set to become an excellent community…
This weekend saw the launch of a new community gardening project in Swaythling funded by the Southampton Airport Community Fund. The garden, at 286 Burgess Road, is being created and managed by Green Space Community Gardens which has already transformed spaces in Sway and New Milton. Felicity Crabb, one of the project coordinators said,…
More snow is predicted for Eastleigh. Cold snap to continue. Families enjoy winter fun in town centre.
Southampton Airport is preparing itself for a snowfall tonight and is poised to shift almost 900 tonnes of snow form the runway.
Hampshire Police are advising the public to avoid travelling on the roads tomorrow morning (Friday 18th January 2013) as five to ten centimetres of snow is predicted to fall across Hampshire. The latest advice from the Met Office is that bulk of the snowfall is anticipated between 4am and 1pm, with the potential to seriously…
Some essential and well-used facilities at Southampton Airport have been given a platinum award in the 2012 Loo of the Year Awards (LOYA). The platinum rating was one of only three awarded in the airport category. It recognises the exceptional levels of cleanliness and maintenance achieved by Amey, the company that cleans and maintains all facilities at the…
An emergency landing at Southampton Airport caused a rush hour snarl up this morning after an aircraft with engine problems caused Police to close the M27 briefly. At about 8.48 a flybe Dash 8 Q400 enroute to Jersey lost power to the starboard engine shortly after takeoff and was forced to return to the airport. All emergency…
Southampton Airport was closed for almost two hours earlier today after a taxiing plane accidentally reversed on to grass and became stuck in mud shortly before take-off. Sixteen passengers flying with Eastern Airways to Aberdeen were forced to disembark were delayed by several hour. Inward flights bound for Southampton were forced to land at Bournemouth…
The number of Air traffic delays in the UK during the three months of the Olympic Games which could be attributed to National Air Traffic Services were almost 87% down on the same period during 2011. And the delay that was generated during July, August and September in the UK accounted for just 1% of the European…
Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline and the biggest operator at Southampton Airport, has put on sale its 2013 Summer schedule that spans next year’s school summer holidays, featuring 33 routes from Southampton offering passengers a total choice of up to 658 flights a week to an extensive range of attractive destinations across the UK…
Latest passenger numbers have continued to remain depressed at Southampton Airport but its Managing Director David Lees has told Eastleigh News the airport is weathering economic headwinds far better than other regional airports and is optimistic that new routes for 2013 will lead to growth. A report to the Joint Airport Consultative Committee which met…
Southampton Airport has relived the excitement of playing host to the Olympic Torch, after receiving an official thank you from LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe and Sir Charles Allen CBE Chair Nations and Regions Group. The Olympic Flame travelled to and from the Channel Islands via Southampton Airport on the special livered British Airways Airbus A319…
Southampton Airport has become the first in the world to install chewing gum recycling bins in its passenger terminal, further expanding its recycling facilities and tackling gum littering. Twenty-five of the bins, known as ‘Gumdrops’, have been installed by the airport’s cleaning and maintenance provider Amey at key points throughout the terminal building. The units…
Flybe – the largest scheduled airline flying out of Southampton Airport is marking its tenth anniversary by offering a 10% discount off tickets booked before midnight on July 25 for travel through to October 25 on a selection of popular routes that include some key destinations to and from Southampton where, over the past decade…
