Pictures at Robin Hood Airport on it's third day of operation |
Movie of trip from Sheffield Centre to DSA by car. The 40 minute Journey is speeded up to fit into 9 minutes |
Unfortunately, quite a misty and overcast day, so some of these photos appear a little dull, but exactly the right atmosphere to get you in the mood for jetting off to somewhere warm and exciting. These pictures are of the public areas of the airport, and in the terminal building in the areas called landside, which anyone can visit. Hopefully one day soon I will be able to fly from here and get photos of the airside areas of the facilities beyond passport control, where we are promised a wide range of retail outlets, cafes, bars and restaurants along with an executive lounge open to all passengers, although I am not sure that all that is yet up an running.
These view from the carpark shows the entrance to the terminal building
And either side onto the actual airfield itself.
Here's the view of the left hand end |
Here's the right hand End of the terminal building |
The carpark itself is large with 2500 spaces, and on my visit, there was what seemed like acres of space spare. However while still at an early stage of it's life, with only approximately 11 arrivals and 12 departures per day, my bet is this will quickly fill up. And maybe soon we will see cheaper parking further away with a shuttle bus, like most other UK airports. Although I suspect that the whole former RAF finningly site will have lots of space which could be used for extra parking facilities at a later stage.
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This view
of the check in lounge shows lots of room for future expansion |
This Shot taken from just inside the slot machines area past the coffee bar and escalators to passport control, toward the far end of the building where the check in desks are.
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Expensive on site
parking, however these are the turn up and park prices,
you
can get 10-20% discount if you book in advance on line for example (8 days £40).
Press
here for details
Taken from the top of the escalator to passport control, you can see down to the coffee bar, where most of the people are, and the as yet un used magazine/paper shop, and toilets. The red covered place at the other side of the toilets is the gambling machine salon where I took the other pictures from, and the far end is where arrivals come out. Behind this section of units are the Baggage Carousels
According to the Official Airport website, this shop is due to be a Spar convenience store, and there are lots of other retail units marked on the Landside (this public side) of the airport, which don't seem to have been taken yet. If any of the other british Airports are anything to go by it probably won't be long before there are shops selling trinkets / ties / handbags / CDs / socks/ perfume. I am pleased to report that this store is now fully operational and very well stocked on 15th May 2005 |
I did go up to passport control entrance, but I wasn't allowed to take any photos
I think this area is called the apron or ramp, where the Aircraft approach the terminal building for people to get on and off. There are no airbridges at this airport so you have to walk across the ground and climb up the stairs to get on.
To the left of the terminal building where scores of sightseers waiting for takeoffs and landings |
The actual runway is not visible but is parallel to the aircraft in the picture above, a few hundred yards across the grass
