Doncaster Sheffield Airport is to close, putting 800 jobs at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The owner of the Peel Group Steven Underwood said the high running costs of the airport <\/strong><\/a>were the main reason for the closure, which means the 800 staff face an uncertain future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will close at the end of October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: HUNDREDS OF JOBS AT RISK AS FOOD PRODUCER PILGRIM\u2019S UK PROPOSES FACTORY CLOSURES<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Oliver Coppard, the Mayor <\/a><\/strong>of South Yorkshire, said he is “devastated” by the “appalling” decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He prompted the owners to “do the right thing” and reconsider the relocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the airport has received public funds for many years and an offer to continue that support had been rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said: “I’m devastated by today’s announcement by Peel and angry about the impact it will have on our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The fact that they chose to turn our offer down simply confirms what many of us suspected: that Peel was never serious about finding an alternative and safeguarding the future of DSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It is still not too late for them to do the right thing; for them to reconsider their decision for the sake of those employees, businesses and communities directly impacted by this appalling decision.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice? <\/strong><\/a>Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Labour mayor stated that the next step would be to request that the government <\/strong><\/a>intervene and keep the airport open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peel said it received a letter from the mayor’s office earlier this month stating that a group interested in purchasing the airport had expressed interest, but the company had not received any additional information about this potential buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Peel said that would be an inappropriate way to spend public money “against the backdrop of an unviable, loss-making operating business”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steven Underwood, Peel Group chief executive, said: “We will not accept any public sector grant to cover the costs of an airport that is not viable due to its lack of adequate forward revenues and high operating costs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peel converted the old RAF Finningley airbase into the airport, which opened in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source<\/strong>: SkyNews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and <\/strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The mayor of South Yorkshire has stated that he is “devastated” by the “appalling” decision to close Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,415],"tags":[791],"class_list":["post-29373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-business-news","category-uk-employment-news","tag-airport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}