August 9th - Taking off with Vision 2030: The future of Leeds Bradford Airport
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Leeds Bradford Airport has unveiled its Vision 2030 strategy, aiming for more flights and more passengers but a more gentle environmental footprint.
Simon Calder speaks with Vincent Hodder, the airport’s chief executive, about plans to boost the transform the gateway to – and from – Yorkshire.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast. I'm intrigued to be talking this morning to Vincent Hodder. He is, of course, the chief executive of Leeds Bradford Airport, which today has unveiled something called Vision 2030. Vincent, thank you for joining us. What's Vision 2030, please? |
| 0:23.6 | Thanks, Simon. Fantastic to be on your podcast with you today. Vision 2030 is an update to the long-term strategy for Leeds Bradford Airport, a really important document laying out for our passengers, our partners, |
| 0:40.7 | and our local community what the development plans are for the airport, what they can expect from |
| 0:45.9 | us over the next few years, and what benefits that the airport is going to be delivering into the |
| 0:50.3 | local community. Can you briefly outline what those will be? Presumably, you'd like more planes, |
| 0:57.5 | more passengers, please? That's part of it, but it's actually much more than that. So as an airport, |
| 1:02.8 | we're engaged in a 200 million pound redevelopment of the airport and the infrastructure of Leeds |
| 1:08.8 | Bradford Airport. That's 200 million pounds of private investment going into our local region, |
| 1:14.6 | developing an extended and improved terminal facility, |
| 1:18.6 | improving the travel experience for our customers, |
| 1:21.6 | improving the working experience for our employees, |
| 1:24.6 | and the infrastructure and support that our airline partners need in order to continue their operations. |
| 1:30.3 | It's really about giving Yorkshire the airport that it deserves. |
| 1:34.3 | At the same time as we're doing that, we're driving forward with changes to all of the other infrastructure around the airport, |
| 1:42.3 | from air traffic control to support |
| 1:46.4 | and maintenance buildings to the runway itself, making sure that we're future-proofing Leeds |
| 1:52.2 | Bradford Airport for the long-term benefit of Yorkshire. |
| 1:55.4 | Now, I've been looking at where you stand in the league table of airports around Great Britain, I make it that you're in 12th place. |
| 2:03.9 | Well, above you is the other really big airport for the north. |
| 2:08.1 | Of course, that is Manchester, which I think has about seven times more passengers than you. |
| 2:14.5 | And of course, we've sadly seen the demise of Doncaster-Sheffield Airport, so that gives you |
| 2:20.6 | some extra business. But how are you going to try to get, and I've been looking at some of the detail here, |
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