Bristol Airport submits expansion plans to council

Bristol airport recently submitted its expansion plans to the local council for approval.

If the expansion is approved it will allow the airport to handle up to 15 million passengers per annum, operating within a rolling 12 month cap of 99,931 air transport movements and 4,974 night flights between the hours of 23:30 and 06:00.

Details included within the planing application show a major expansion with extension of western apron for additional aircraft stands, reconfiguration of central and eastern aprons, construction of a passenger surface level car park for approximately 2,000 vehicles, eastern & westerns extension of existing runway with repositioned access to the construction of two new taxiways, plus the widening of taxiway golf and much more.