Question follow-through · 10412

Regional Airports: Air Routes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help support small regional airports to develop new routes in addition to the use of public service obligations.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 22 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 28 Oct 2024
Answer: 28 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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22 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help support small regional airports to develop new routes in addition to the use of public service obligations.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
Public Service Obligation (PSO) Regulations enable protection of existing domestic routes that are in danger of being lost. DfT currently joint-funds three PSO routes into London from Newquay, Dundee and Derry/Londonderry. Airports invest in their infrast...

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