Post by Humberside on May 1, 2012 17:42:44 GMT
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Cambridge Airport has pledged a £20 million investment programme by the airport's owners the Marshall Group to open up the green field site to the south of the runway. The plans include expansion at the airport and major infrastructure upgrades and development of the airport into a business hub. The airport will be attending EBACE in Geneva. The development will begin in July.
The investment will focus on a new taxiway, which will provide a key access route to the south of the runway. Spend will also centre on a major rehabilitation of the runway which will enhance its performance and maintain the airport's critical asset for a further 12 years. The project will also deliver significant environmental benefits through the implementation of an improved drainage system.
The airport has developed over the past twelve months with new regional airline services as well as new aviation companies basing themselves at the airport. After a competitive tender process, Cambridge Airport selected ExecuJet Europe to run its FBO (formerly Marshall Business Aviation) and the Swiss headquartered company moved in January 2012. It subsequently announced it was moving its flight operations to the UK from Zurich and will have some 50 plus personnel based at Cambridge by year end. Other tenant companies taking up residency since EBACE 2011 include business aircraft sales distributors Action Aviation and the Pilot Training College, PTC.
"All our buildings are currently full but we'd like to entice new tenants to the airport which will support the on-going development of Cambridge Airport as a leading centre of excellence for aviation. We have the land available to the south side of the airport and this is driving the next phase of our strategy to develop new buildings in the area," said airport director Archie Garden. He is heading up the expansion drive, together with infrastructure director Sheila Kissane, who joined from Gatwick Airport where she was engineering, procurement and contracts manager, last July.
"We are inviting synergistic businesses and aviation companies to come and talk with us if they are looking for a new UK base where we can offer a range of opportunities. Tenants will be offered a range of property development options including self-build, build and buy back or lease of properties, built by Marshall Aerospace. A vibrant business park, a hotel for crew, operator bases, this is the type of project we're could be achieved," Garden added.
Target tenants are companies who can offer complementary maintenance or technical capability to the Marshall Group "We have prime space too for a showroom for business jets and we would like to further develop our pilot training facilities, building on what the Pilot Training Cambridge (PTC) has started to successfully establish at Cambridge with its B737 simulator," added Garden.
Cambridge Airport is one of five regional airports in the UK capable of accepting business and passenger services with a 24/7 slot allocation during the 2012 Olympics period. The airport, which has 24 hour security patrols, has no runway restrictions as it holds a Public Use licence. It is also an excellent alternative destination for London-based traffic, especially for travellers to and from the US as the airport location lies directly on the flight path that avoids London's busy airspace.
The investment will focus on a new taxiway, which will provide a key access route to the south of the runway. Spend will also centre on a major rehabilitation of the runway which will enhance its performance and maintain the airport's critical asset for a further 12 years. The project will also deliver significant environmental benefits through the implementation of an improved drainage system.
The airport has developed over the past twelve months with new regional airline services as well as new aviation companies basing themselves at the airport. After a competitive tender process, Cambridge Airport selected ExecuJet Europe to run its FBO (formerly Marshall Business Aviation) and the Swiss headquartered company moved in January 2012. It subsequently announced it was moving its flight operations to the UK from Zurich and will have some 50 plus personnel based at Cambridge by year end. Other tenant companies taking up residency since EBACE 2011 include business aircraft sales distributors Action Aviation and the Pilot Training College, PTC.
"All our buildings are currently full but we'd like to entice new tenants to the airport which will support the on-going development of Cambridge Airport as a leading centre of excellence for aviation. We have the land available to the south side of the airport and this is driving the next phase of our strategy to develop new buildings in the area," said airport director Archie Garden. He is heading up the expansion drive, together with infrastructure director Sheila Kissane, who joined from Gatwick Airport where she was engineering, procurement and contracts manager, last July.
"We are inviting synergistic businesses and aviation companies to come and talk with us if they are looking for a new UK base where we can offer a range of opportunities. Tenants will be offered a range of property development options including self-build, build and buy back or lease of properties, built by Marshall Aerospace. A vibrant business park, a hotel for crew, operator bases, this is the type of project we're could be achieved," Garden added.
Target tenants are companies who can offer complementary maintenance or technical capability to the Marshall Group "We have prime space too for a showroom for business jets and we would like to further develop our pilot training facilities, building on what the Pilot Training Cambridge (PTC) has started to successfully establish at Cambridge with its B737 simulator," added Garden.
Cambridge Airport is one of five regional airports in the UK capable of accepting business and passenger services with a 24/7 slot allocation during the 2012 Olympics period. The airport, which has 24 hour security patrols, has no runway restrictions as it holds a Public Use licence. It is also an excellent alternative destination for London-based traffic, especially for travellers to and from the US as the airport location lies directly on the flight path that avoids London's busy airspace.