Airports
Recent decision could allow traffic increase at Farnborough
The UK government has approved an increase in weekend movements at London-area Farnborough Airport.

The UK government has approved an increase in weekend movements at London-area Farnborough Airport. On March 13, TAG Aviation won its appeal against an earlier local government decision not to allow an increase from 2,500 to 5,000 movements on weekends and public holidays.

The ruling, made jointly by the Secretaries of State at the Department of Transport and the Department of Communities and Local Government, came almost a year after the end of a public inquiry into the issue. Importantly, the grounds for granting TAG’s appeal draw strongly on recent central government aviation policy that favors increased business aviation traffic at airports such as Farnborough.