UK government pledges to restore Doncaster Sheffield Airport as a “thriving” regional hub

Plans to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport have been given a boost after UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the government will work to return the hub into a “thriving regional airport”

Doncaster Sheffield Airport has sat closed since 2022 after Flybe closed its facility at the airport in 2019 and Wizz Air ended flights from the airport in 2022 over concerns that the operators were “unable to guarantee the terms of its commercial agreement.” Tui Airways, the…