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AIRPORT
Feature!
Publishing and The Société Jersiaise.
Two French Air Force jet
aeroplanes flying over
"B U A " aircraft hangar
and coming in to land
at Jersey airport
airport began to creak at the seams. With stories of little, old
ladies having to use the toilets just to find somewhere to sit,
the States again proposed a major expansion of the terminal
buildings. The biggest extension was in 1997, when the new
departures hall was opened and much more space was airport just to keep it up to to provide, but an airport fire
provided for passengers, particularly at peak periods. scratch, and the buildings still tender today costs more than
include the 1937 structure. three times the entire capital
But despite its humble beginnings and often being the centre of cost of building the whole
controversy, the airport now plays an enormous part in the More than £50m will have to airport in 1937.
economic prosperity of the Island. be spent over the next three
years just in maintaining the But it has proved to be
Passenger numbers have dwindled in the past few years runways and replacing money well spent, and as the
because of the downturn in the tourism industry, but it's equipment. airport approaches its
expected that a total of 1.54m passengers will have gone centenary it will continue to
through the airport in 2007. That's an improvement on recent This would no doubt have play a crucial role in the
years and important in helping the airport to meet revenue surprised the early pioneers economy and well-being of
targets without having to increase the cost of flying to the who worried about how much the Island. So Happy
Island. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done at the the airport was costing them Birthday, Jersey Airport.
Opening of Jersey airport in 1937 by Bailiff Alexander
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Coutanche, standing with his wife and a pilot next to
Jersey Airways Ltd plane 'The Ouaine (sic) Bay'
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