Transport written question – answered at on 12 June 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which Scottish airports will benefit from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund.
The Government announced on
The Scottish devolved Administration or regional body may apply for access to this fund to maintain an air link from other Scottish airports to London, where there is a risk that an existing link may be lost, and where the case for a Public Service Obligation has been made.
The Chancellor announced in this year’s Budget that the funding would be doubled to £20 million per year, and also extended to allow for the support for start-up aid for new air routes from UK regional airports. European Union aviation State aid guidelines allow for provision of start-up aid to facilitate start-up of new routes from airports which handle fewer than 5 million passengers per annum. This will therefore cover all Scotland’s airports apart from Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The Department for Transport is working with the Treasury to develop guidance that will clarify how the Government will ordinarily expect to interpret the European Union guidelines, and explain how the funding process will work.
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