Take your pick from these .... :D

Edit: Sorry, forgot to include Finningley Airport in that list if the mods could deal. Thanks ;)

Originally posted by TOTLEYtunnel
Take your pick from these .... :D

Edit: Sorry, forgot to include Finningley Airport in that list if the mods could deal. Thanks ;)

Done.

Thank you!

:)

Because it's in Doncaster, you could call it,

'ringworm airport' or,

'Thief-row.'


Mods if you could edit the list to include my ideas I would be grateful.

Yours

Am calling it Robin Hood Airport with a silent Doncaster Sheffield bit at the end like they do on their site :P

http://www.robinhoodairport.com/

Lol miniminch - Robin Hood Airport, the newest escape route from Doncatraz.
I can't understand why they didn't leave it as Finningley, a nice name, well known with a lot of history behind it.

:hihi: 32 votes - and none of them for Robin Hood Friar Tuck Maid Marrion Doncaster Barnsley Connisborough Sheffield Airport :hihi:

Originally posted by TOTLEYtunnel
Take your pick from these .... :D

Edit: Sorry, forgot to include Finningley Airport in that list if the mods could deal. Thanks ;) Also done.

I'm going to be pedantic here and say Finningley Doncaster Airport. I like the name Finningley as that's what people knew it as, but for it's status as an international airport, Doncaster should be included in its title.

I've only ever heard it refered to as "Donny Airport" or "Donny" in conversation with friends/colleagues, and never by any of the official names.

For reasons of nostalgia I'd call it "Finningley". Other than that it's gotta be "Doncaster" cos that's where it is:huh:

After all, thats why our own so called airport is called "Sheffield" and not "Side of the golf course, on top of a pond, not too far from France":roll:

(For those not aware, as kids we used to nip through a fence onto British Rail property where there was a pond full of frogs, newts etc. Hope they moved em before filling it in!)

I would think should simply be called:

SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

because Sheffield the closest major city to it, don't think a town like Doncaster should have it's name included in the title, it's a wonder they not included Rotherham in the name too because that is closer to the airport than Sheffield.

Internationally who will have heard of Doncaster?!

I will call it RHDS Airport. "Ruds" Airport. OR maybe, The Airport That They Couldn't Decide What To Call So They Called It Something Stupid Airport or TATTCDWTCSTCISS - "Tatt Cudwut CustCiss" Airport. That might not catch on tho.

I voted for 'Doncaster Airport' as it doesnt feel llike it is in Sheffield anyway. I also call the other airports by their locations ie
Manchester Airport
East Midlands Airport
Birmingham etc etc etc

It's driving to the b*ggars and finding parking near the terminal that I have the trouble with...:rolleyes:

I am properly confused by the image created by the use of Robin Hood in the name of a commercial venture.

Fly with us, we rob from the rich (you) and give to the poor (our workers)

What kind of brand message does this give to the place? Just need the Dick Turpin Cafe franchise in the lounge and job's a good 'un.

Sheffield has no reason to claim any part of the airport, as its not anything to do with us.

But Doncaster is an unknown on the national level, never mind international level, so I vote for South Yorkshire Airport.

Maybe "South Yorkshire International".

It would be unfair to say that Doncaster could not put it's name to it's own airport though... and hopefully it will raise the profile of an otherwise overlooked town. Or city, whichever they are this week.

Three guess's which one I voted for, and it did'nt have Robin Hood, or Sheffield or Finningley in the answer

Here we can see one of the Robin Hood Airport security guards in action, with his themed uniform.

Note the green tights, to reduce chafing during persuit.

http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/miscreview/adventuresofrobinhood1.jpg

I refer to it as Doncaster Airport, (or Donny) though I suppose it really ought to be called Finningley. But, it's one of those things that will evolve with time. Anyone remember that Leeds Bradford Airport was originally called Yeadon Airport? How many people know that East Midlands Airport isn't called that anymore - It's Nottingham Airport apparantly - and depending which web-site you search under will depend which name comes up as it's East Mids with some, and Nottingham with others - confused - you will be!?!

Personally I think Robin Hood Airport is a stupid name and will never catch on - mainly because most people associate Robin Hood with Nottingham!

I thought that the idea was to make sure that internationally the name instantly meant England to foreigners. After all if you're a Lithuanian, Chinese, or Norwegian, the name Doncaster, or even Sheffield may not bring England to mind. That's why John Lennon was picked for the Liverpool airport. I suppose there's no-one famous enough from round here whose name instantly makes people think "England".
BTW this doesn't mean that I agree with the choice of name.

If you draw a circle on the map with the centre on Finningley then you will see that Sheffield City Centre is 21 miles as the crow flies and the outskirts are 26 miles. The circle that completely contains all of Sheffield also contains the following towns as well as Sheffield and Doncaster:-

Wakefield
Castleford
Scunthorpe
Lincoln
Mansfield
Pontefract
Chesterfield
Barnsley

Using a program (Autoroute) that will provide an area of the map that you can drive to in a set time you will find that you can drive to the furtherest area of Sheffield in 55 minutes. The same time, according to the program, as it takes to get to all the previously mentioned places and also most of Leeds and parts of Hull and Nottingham. You can even get to the outskirts of York in the time it takes to get from the far West of Sheffield.

Clearly, based on these figures it should be called the South Yorkshire, Most of East Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire Airport which might be shortened to "Yorkshire Airport".

You should be very careful about encouraging them to rename it as Sheffield airport. Sheffield has an airport, and this airport could be extanded and be profitable if the land being used at the end of the runways was used for runway. Instead the airport is being evolved into an office park and ( in the very short term until even that is swallowed by offices) a "heliport". It will be a great day when Sheffield is affluent enough to need a heliport where international stars and the super rich can land before rushing to their meetings in Sheffield Centre, but the plans that are being suggested are that ordinary people will get a helicopter to dash them off to Finningley or East Midlands to catch their low cost flights.

Narrow minded people might suggest that there is more money to be made in property development than airports and that having another airport with the same name makes it easier to justify closing the City Airport. Surely it is better for the City to have a City and an international Airport? All of you out there who are saying "but Sheffield airport was obviously never going to make any money" should not forget two facts; 1) the same people who said it would be profitable are the ones now saying a heliport will make money and 2) If it doesn't make money after 10 years then the same people can buy the freeehold for a £1.

Doncaster Airport. It's an airport, it's in Doncaster. Simple really. Also Doncaster is a historic transport interchange with its roman road (the A1), plus key rail routes and the motorways.

Thomsonfly - who have to make sure their customers know exactly where it is and musn't mislead them - call it Doncaster.

On departure screens where they can't fit all the name in they'll shorten it to Doncaster.

Officially it'll most often be known as Doncaster-Sheffield Airport (as in Leeds-Bradford or Dallas-Fortworth) which is fine and short enough to say, and rightly includes the regional centre (Sheffield).

Hardly anyone will say 'Robin Hood Airport' because airports only need a subtitle name to distinguish it from other airports serving the same city (eg those serving New York, Paris, London). Anyone using Liverpool airport calls it 'Liverpool' not 'John Lennon' because there's only the one airport there.

Please also remember that North Nottinghamshire forms the southern suburbs of Doncaster (like Derbyshire does for Sheffield) so why shouldn't it reclaim 'Robin of Loxley' for the marketing opportunities? East Midlands Airport must wish they'd thought of it first. It was all fields across S Yorks and Notts in Robin's time anyway. But no, I don't like the name either!

Hey up, they had their first emergency yesterday

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4554679.stm

I love the way they have spoken to all the "blow-it-out-of-all-proportion" -ists ...

I think that these figures speak for themselves and this link should be sent to Peel Holding:-

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40406&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

to show them the interest that this has caused

anybody wanting to comment etc can go to

http://www.peelholdings.co.uk/ > Peel Airports

It would be very interesting to see the response that comes back from Peel IF ANY

If anybody either gets an email or a pm please let the Forum know

I for one would ask them why they spent such a small amount on the road infrastructure, anybody who has been to
Doncaster Airport they will see exactly what I mean, I pity the poor locals
Regards
Tony[

I have sent them a hard copy and posted it this evening.

Any reply will duly be posted.

Also, while on the subject, they have also registered http://www.doncasterairport.co.uk so there's another idea. Keep hitting that address instead of the RobinHood one and they might get the message too ... okay maybe not!

I really do not know what they are playing at except hedging their bets from both ends, you log onto

http://www.doncasterairport.co.uk:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

and quess what the address shows in the address bar


www.robinhoodairport.com:gag: :rant: :gag: :loopy: :help:
So no change there then

"Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood Airport" What a long winded name! It was RAF Finningley and so I still call it Finningley. Mainly through habit. I used to go up there as a kid and watch air displays. I can understand the "Doncaster" bit, but definatley not "Sheffield" nor "Robin Hood."

I saw a TV advert advertising flights that referred to the airport simply as 'Doncaster' airport.

Call it after somebody, How about Charley Peace, or Joe Cocker International

I have received a response (very prompt!) from Peel Holdings on this matter:

Letter from Peel Holdings


RE: NAMING OF DONCASTER AIRPORT

Thank you for your correspondence on the above matter.

As you will be aware, living in the area, the name we have chosen for the UK's newest international airport has caused some high profile arguments, both for and against the name "Robin Hood". We felt that the airport should have a personality and therefore the name "Robin Hood" was chosen. The addition of Sheffield in the title was to increase awareness and to also include one of the largest cities in the country, and in turn increase awareness of the close proximity that Doncaster shares with Sheffield.

I thank you for enclosing the screen shots of the "Sheffield Forum Web Site" and I have also viewed the site at great length, and appreciate that there is a large number of people from the area who have voted for "Doncaster Airport" as opposed to the name that we have adopted. I also take on board your views that confusion may arise with having so many names for one airport. Indeed, in aviation circles, the airport is simply known as "Doncaster" and the airport code is "DSA" - Doncaster Sheffield Airport. The Robin Hood part is simply used as a marketing strategy and the airport will be advertised at other airports as "Doncaster" or "Doncaster/Sheffield" depending on the Customer Information Screens' capabilities at that airport.

I thank you for bringing this to my attention, and I will watch this forum carefully, as these are paying/potential customers and as such, Peel Holdings and Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport are interested in what our customers have to say. Although there are no plans to change the airport's name at this time to Doncaster Airport, we constantly monitor our external branding and may change this in the near future, if this is to the benefit of our customers.

Many thanks for getting in touch, and I hope to welcome you to Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport in the near future.

They don't mention Robin Hood much do they??!!

How about Donsheffcasterfield airport, maybe thats too long. Doshecaster - no, sounds like an intimate cleansing product. South Yorkshire international or SY international sounds like a better, fairer choice to me!

As I no longer live in Sheffield I have to rely on secondhand info - someone told me this airport was being built in Barnsley! I thought an international airport in Barnsley sounded odd, unless they are building one there too?

To previous comments about no one having heard of Doncaster in other parts of the world, I think thats untrue. There are other Doncasters and New Doncasters in the US. It is a city after all. I lived in Woking previously and I've yet to see it's namesake here!

Originally posted by tulip
It is a city after all.

What, Doncaster? No. It just wishes it was :lol:

I'll be calling it Donnie Airport, .. it has nothing whatsoever to do with Robin Hood, or Sheffield, (Sheffield always manages to get its name on other people's airports, like the useless never used 'airport' in Catcliffe Rotherham).

What it boils down to is they would love an airport in Sheffield but they don't want all the noise so they keep adding their name to other people's airports near enough to be claimed as Sheffield's.

Originally posted by Billy24
I'll be calling it Donnie Airport, .. it has nothing whatsoever to do with Robin Hood, or Sheffield, (Sheffield always manages to get its name on other people's airports, like the useless never used 'airport' in Catcliffe Rotherham).

What it boils down to is they would love an airport in Sheffield but they don't want all the noise so they keep adding their name to other people's airports near enough to be claimed as Sheffield's.

Sheffields name is attached because it invested a large amount of money into it, Fact.

That said it is hard to see the Sheff connection.
It's actually quicker to get to Manchester from here at the West side and I would imagine also quicker to get to Nottingham East Midlands from Southern parts of the city.

It is a very nice airport though flew to Dublin this weekend and everything is a lot simpler with it being so young, so it's worth traveling that bit extra.
It looks very much like Liverpools "John Lennon" airport with the potential to be much bigger.

Thought South Yorkshire airport was a good idea but theirs nowt wrong with Finingly.

id get rid of the robin hood but keep it sheffield/doncaster

In my opinion it should have just been called Finningley Airport

The name is stupid - not so much for the Robin Hood part of it, but just the length of it! Robin Hood was allegedly born in Loxley, so he does have connections with South Yorkshire (Sherwood Forrest used to be much bigger than it is today and extended right up into Yorkshire) - but obviously popular culture these days associates him much more with the Nottingham area.

I also don't think it is close enough to Sheffield to justify Sheffield being in the name, but it seems that the powers that be don't think Donny is important enough to have an airport just called 'Doncaster'. So how about South Yorkshire Airport? I know it's nothing special - but it does what it says on the tin!

Originally posted by banesmabes
So how about South Yorkshire Airport? I know it's nothing special - but it does what it says on the tin!

It works for Humberside. None of the local towns claim it as their own.

I think an appropriate name would be 'Robin Mind The Rut In The Runway Hood Airport'

People will immediately identify that it beogs to 'Sheffield The City Of Ruts'.

Happy Landings!

I'll personally call it Finningley, because I know it as RAF Finningley from living 20 years in Doncaster. Really like Tulip's idea of Donfield Sheffcaster Friar Tuck or whatever it was, but it might be just a bit far fetched! .:clap: :clap: For people outside the area to recognise it as a decent airport think South Yorkshire (International) Airport fits the bill best

It should be called Sheffield-Doncaster.

It's actual location, i.e., Finningley, means nothing to foreign travellers. It wasn't previously known as Finningley airport, but RAF Finningley.

For that matter, Doncaster won't mean much to foreign travellers either. It should therefore be named after the largest and most well known conurbation that it serves, i.e., Sheffield, and tag on Doncaster just to placate the outraged locals.

Calling it Robin Hood Airport is just a joke!

After the farce with "Sheffield Airport" should Sheffield not ensure some special road or rail transport links with Finningley before trying to lay any claim to it?

Call it what the aviation industry call it (DSA) Doncaster, Sheffield Airport.......
see ........ airport.proboards45.com/index.cgi
put http infront of the address above cos it wont let me post (less than 5)

Even though I think it will be a success,it should have been called "Sheffield International Airport" as the name "Sheffield" in known more on an international scale than Doncaster.
Yes it's in Doncaster and 20 odd miles from Sheffield,but Manchester Airport is in Cheshire,but your not going to call it Stockport International are you and Nottingham East Midlands is in Leicestershire and closer to Derby but "Nottingham" is the most known city.
I know this will annoy people in Doncaster and probably rightly so but the facts are that Sheffield is the major city in this area.Also with all the debacle with Sheffield City Airport we probably don't deserve an airport but at the end of the day it should have been called

SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

And I bet Peel Holdings (the airport developers) wanted this to.

You're right, it should have been 'Sheffield', but it isn't, and I for one am sad and surprised.

The name now appears to be 'Doncaster'. I now call it that, and that's what you see on the arrival and departure boards in foreign airports.

It's Doncaster to the world now, and it ain't going to change.

It's a cracking little airport though, just like its sister in Liverpool.

Originally posted by SheffBloke
Even though I think it will be a success,it should have been called "Sheffield International Airport" as the name "Sheffield" in known more on an international scale than Doncaster.
Yes it's in Doncaster and 20 odd miles from Sheffield,but Manchester Airport is in Cheshire,but your not going to call it Stockport International are you and Nottingham East Midlands is in Leicestershire and closer to Derby but "Nottingham" is the most known city.
I know this will annoy people in Doncaster and probably rightly so but the facts are that Sheffield is the major city in this area.Also with all the debacle with Sheffield City Airport we probably don't deserve an airport but at the end of the day it should have been called

SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

And I bet Peel Holdings (the airport developers) wanted this to.


I am a Doncaster guy...it does not annoy me, simply because it is all about opinions.....healthy debate does the soul good :thumbsup:

I was under this assumption until I was proved wrong that Manchester Airport was in Cheshire/Stockport. Manchester Airport is in fact in Wythenshawe, which is a City of Manchester Suburb, like Grenoside is to the city of Sheffield. Nottingham is in fact the closest major city/town to NEMA.

Any name given to the DSA would have been contentious. Calling it South Yorkshire Airport might have alienated Bassetlaw and North West Lincs. It’s on the doorstep of both areas and both areas gave unconditional support to the project, something that at the outset, Sheffield did not. This was mainly due though to false promises with regards to Sheffield’s own airport and the fact that the Manchester Airport Group prompted Sheffield Airport to oppose DSA in return for future support at Sheffield Airport. I think this came out during the inquiry.
It might have been best leaving it simply as Finningley airport.
At the end of the day, however, all major area towns are coming together in support of the airport. Sheffield, as I hear it, are providing £500,000 towards better links for the airport….a scheduled coach service maybe?
Sheffield, I feel, will benefit greatly from the airport. Whereas Doncaster (in general) is being seen as a major transport hub/interchange, I think companies wanting to relocate might see Sheffield as a more attractive proposition for their commercial/marketing sector.
Regardless of the name...I am sure we will all feel the benefits.

I agree it is a cracking little airport, but it won't be little for long.