Chamber of Commerce director Barry Cash in the area at the end of the runway which is being sold.
THE States would like to buy land at the western end of the airport which could allow it to extend the runway.
Six acres of fields with derelict glasshouses and stone sheds adjoining Rue de la Mare and Route de Plaisance are being sold by sealed tender bids.
Public Services minister Bill Bell confirmed the States were interested. ‘Any land that comes on the end of the runway which would facilitate an extension or improvements to the end of it we are interested in,’ he said.
Any purchase would be done through the Strategic Property Unit and his department would not be directly involved.
He was confident that detailed options for work on the runway and apron areas, currently being prepared by consultant RPS Burks Green, would go before the States later this year.
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For sometime now, there has been a movement for getting the runway extended.
One really needs to ask the question why.
Guernsey Airport simply does not need a longer runway - it quite possibly does need, though, a better runway.
Guernsey does not need larger aircraft. It needs more flights and more destinations from where people can come from more easily and more economically.
There are plenty of aircraft around capable of serving the islands quite perfectly. Aurigny and Blue Islands are examples of airlines that have such aircraft. Larger aircraft do not necessarily mean cheaper flights, especially if they can not be filled. Which they will not be anyway if used on routes from provincial airports where there simply is no the demand.
Guernsey Airport has the same length runway as London City airport which has flights every day to all over north Europe. Unfortunately, Guernsey does not even have any flights to London City let alone Heathrow.
No… I suspect that the calls for a longer runway are coming from certain parties in Guernsey who have their own personal financial agenda in mind.