Regional Airports

(asked on 29th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the amount of Regional Air Connectivity funding that will be made available in each of the next three years.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 2nd July 2015

There is currently £20 million annually available for the next three years from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund. The Government has already provided £3.4 million to support both the Dundee to London Stansted route and the Newquay to Gatwick route through public service obligations in 2014/15 and 2015/16 and has committed a further £2million over this and the next three financial years to support these routes.

In addition to this the Government undertook earlier this year an initial application stage for airlines to bid for start-up aid funding. The Government will announce after the July Budget how we will take this forward.

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