Or if the previous was anything to go by, rejecting said zone transits and ‘forgetting’ to log the rejections. ‘Sorry you can’t transit flying pigs through here, we’ve got a big movement scheduled at some point today’. Something tells me those previous rejections (that were forgotten about) might come back to bite them through the ACP!Ah yes
Before long they’ll be issuing zone transits to residents at the local pig farm.
The ‘big movement’ in question being a 737 some hours later. Sounds like Bournemouth Radar on a Saturday afternoon.
Exactly this. The huge swathes of airspace that they’re trying to get back were extreme overkill. It would be simply outrageous if they are granted it again.
It’s not reality. Much has been made by people slightly desperately trying to find ways to make DSA viable as it becomes apparent that neither passenger or cargo airlines are really that interested. The actual reality is that there is no chance at all of a military aerospace company that needs a runway co-locating at a civilian airport, for reasons that should be obvious. And that’s before we get to the fact that BAe are quite content with what they already have (Warton, Samlesbury etc) and aren’t looking to move or relocate.
LBA is slow to get to from the south because it is right in the urban sprawl of Leeds and so the roads are all slow 30mph roads. But the fact that it is in the urban sprawl of Leeds means that it has a lot of people right on its doorstep. And those people aren't going to drive all the way to a field ten miles south of Doncaster.
Although despite the recent good news re Teesside in terms of contracts it still loses £3-4mn a year.
Think it’s more than that, but who knows.. When the ‘private sector partner’ divests their shares and the mayor decides to gift it to a ‘charitable trust’ the scrutiny usually afforded is simply brushed aside. Is it legal? Well yes, but when the ‘charitable trust’ has apparently so far donated £1700.00 then it would suggest ethics aren’t at the forefront of this particular venture.
As Tees Valley resident I'm spitting feathers at the amount of public money being burned on our airport. One of the reasons I'm so keen for Doncaster to not get off the ground so the good residents of Doncaster and South Yorkshire don't also see a load of cash get burned for no reason!
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
For anyone unable to view - in summary:The Yorkshire Post are now back to covering in detail the DSA deal, after being given a copy of the lease between Peel and the airport company.
Unfortunately its behind a pay wall, but link below to just one piece they have run this week.
Lease talks highlight the need for complete transparency over reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport
Nothing short of complete transparency will do when it comes to the arrangements around Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA).
Turnover rather than profit is indicative in and of itself.
I thought that. What's that old advice given to actors? Take a percentage of the gross box office not the profit? Same applies here I reckon. I think Peel have played it very sensible asking for a percentage of the turnover not profit. Because they're ain't gonna be much to be seen.
The contentious issue to my mind is the targets for passengers and freight. The passenger targets are, in ten years from now, over a million passengers per year MORE than they were at the peak in 2019 of DSA 1.0, even this wasn’t sustainable. To put it another way, they’d probably need at least two major base agreements in place with at least 7 based aircraft of 737-800 or A320 series capacity! It’s not clear when the ‘full reopening’ is planned to take place, so far they’re saying late 2027 but since passenger airlines rarely start new routes from scratch during winter the best case scenario is 2028. So that would give the airport 8 years to meet the targets which are around twice the average throughput of the 17 years it was previously open.
By Harry Harrison
Local Democracy Reporter
Published 25th Feb 2026, 17:07 GMT
The City of Doncaster Council has remained silent after dozens of pages from the confidential lease agreement with the Peel Group for Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) was leaked on social media.
Screenshots of pages and, at one stage, a downloadable PDF were posted on local Facebook groups over the weekend and on Monday, February 23, 2026.
Not all pages in the DSA lease between Doncaster Council and Peel are contained within the screenshots or downloadable file, however, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) confirmed the pages were included in the documents leaked to the media in January 2026.
The LDRS approached Doncaster Council asking for the latest leak, but did not receive any response.
by Taboola
The DSA lease agreed in March 2024 has been leaked on social media. | Tony Johnson
Following the leak to journalists in January, Doncaster Council offered city councillors copies of the lease, so long as they signed an agreement not to discuss the details openly.
The agreement was labelled a “gag order” by opposition councillors who refused to sign.
However, the LDRS understands that some councillors who did not sign the agreement to view the lease were able to download the PDF document leaked on social media.
One of those is the Advance UK group leader, Councillor Nicola Brown, who said she found the document “deeply concerning”.
“As a councillor representing one of the most deprived wards in the borough, I cannot stay silent when public money is being handled in this way,” Cllr Brown, who was elected to represent Adwick & Carcroft in May 2025, said.
“This lease appears to hand significant financial advantage to Peel, the very company that closed our airport, while locking Doncaster taxpayers into escalating costs for generations,” she added.
Councillor Nicola Brown said no opposition councillors signed the “gag order”. | Nicola Brown
Reporting by the LDRS and Yorkshire Post in January 2026 revealed a number of clauses in the lease agreement, including break clauses linked to planning approvals and passenger targets higher than the council’s own high-end projections.
The lease is actively being renegotiated, as required by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) in September 2025.
In a recent statement to the LDRS, Mayor Ros Jones said the renegotiations were “progressing well” and “almost completed”.
You may have noticed a flurry (slurry?) of news in the Yorkshire Post today about the airport. The two council execs. Damien Allen and Christian Foster, have hosted a PR event this week. Anyone would think they were trying to strong arm opinion ahead of the extraordinary audit committee meeting on Thursday followed by extraordinary Full Council on Friday..
There is no prospect of DSA having flights to Azerbaijan. To serve what market? They really are getting desperate with this nonsense now.
Are MAI still involved? They’ve gone awfully quiet about it
The entire interview was the sign of someone who was woefully unprepared. The other bloke, Damien Allen, was instrumental in agreeing the lease which we now know has been flagged as far too high risk for a public finance agreement so is apparently subject to renegotiation. I’m not convinced it will be a complete change but we’ll never know as there’s now a gagging order in place.
Thanks for posting this @pug1, one of the funniest things I've seen all week
I expect they’ll have greyhound tracks, flat cap stalls, a local brass band at the entrance, a Robin Reliant hanging from the ceiling and an on site colliery to give it that ‘sense of place’?
The Isle of Man Government still won't admit how much their new Liverpool ferry terminal cost, but rumour on the street is that it is north of £100m.
I suspect he meant Kazakhstan as Almaty has a growing role as a hub, as does Baku in Azerbaijan. However we're still talking about fantasy and entirely unquantified demand here. Most flights that use them are either cargo (and so will use the far better connected and profitable EMA in preference if to the UK, but they don't currently fly here, flights go to/from Liege or Luxembourg) or flights within Asia, including Russia or China.
