Belfast City seat cap limit may be axed
05.06.10
Environment Minister Edwin Poots may lift the ‘seats for sale’ cap at Belfast City Airport. Currently no more than 2 million seats can be sold from the airport in a year, but the minister has announced an 8 week consultation on a proposal to remove the limit. He added that the airport's permitted operating hours would not be changed if the restriction is eased.
Liz Fawcett from campaign group Belfast City Airport Watch said she was disappointed that Mr Poots was considering lifting the restriction. She said: ‘The annual seats for sale limit is crucial in ensuring that many of the aircraft using the airport are small and medium-size planes. The removal of this safeguard would permit many more large planes to use it, and wreak further misery on local residents.’
Mr Poots said that he had ‘not made a final decision’ and that he would ‘carefully consider the consultation responses’ before doing so.
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