How Biggin Hill Airport Connects Passengers to London and Gets Along with its Neighbors – AINtv
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While airports dedicated to business aviation are generally considered a great boon to private travelers, they don’t always enjoy the best of relations with their neighbors. The threat to close the Los Angeles-area Santa Monica Airport is a prime example of this dilemma, but it doesn’t have to be this way, as we found while visiting london.
Biggin Hill Airport enjoys a prime location, within easy reach the heart of the U.K. capital, and offers six-minute helicopter shuttle transfers into the city. It competes with other London area airports, including Farnborough, Luton, London City, Stansted, Gatwick and Heathrow.
The airport needed the support of the local community in what is a densely populated London suburb to get permission to extend hours, and it doesn’t take that for granted. The prospect of creating more local jobs was a big factor, and that in part came from the opening of new aircraft maintenance facilities, including Bombardier’s new European service center.
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take notes Santa Monica, this is how you work with your local airport.
Santa Monica’s owners have no desire to keep the airport open, and are doing everything they can to close it.
I go there every year for biggin hill airshow
Did my flight training there and work experience- fantastic airport run by some fantastic people. Andy patsalides has put on a bit of weight tho ??
I’d love to work there!! I’ll have my A&P Certificate by March 2019. Keep up the great work. ??
The closest airport to london is city airport its 15 minutes on the dlr to bank
Dem spitfire
I love this airport! Got to visit it with a friend who works there last May! Awesome!
Very nice…Thank you…
I was at the lookout cafe there like 10 minutes ago
It is not the closest airport London City is
Biggin Hill welcomes the jets, but the one thing they no longer want to be involved in is the training of pilots. I got my PPL there, but if training at Biggin Hill hadn’t been available, my PPL would never have happened – the alternative airfields were too far away from where I lived. OK, I would have been no great loss to aviation, but someone has to pilot those jets, and if training is difficult to obtain, then people are less likely to become jet pilots.
Biggin Hill offers a poor service- there is no way to get to London apart from via helicopter or a 1.5 hour drive. They have an abysmal relationship with neighbours and provide relatively no jobs in comparison to the tens of thousands of homes polluted and disturbed by
flights.