Almost thirty years later, a consultant report suggested that Sheffield would benefit from a short-runway STOLPORT model similar to London City Airport.

The main lack of an airport in Sheffield is due primarily to the fact there is only a limited area of flat land large enough for it.

It is not coincidental that Sheffield is built on hills because the resultant rivers powered the development of its most famous industries, namely steel making and engineering.

Airlines KLM uk, Sabena, British Airways and Aer Arann offered regular passenger services to Belfast, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Jersey and London.

[2] Passenger figures were: Sheffield City opened just as the low-cost airline revolution began in the UK, a change that rapidly made the high-fare short-hop business flights model obsolete.

The original lease between the Sheffield Development Corporation and Tinsley Park Ltd included a reversionary clause permitting the buyback of 80 acres (320,000 m2) of land for £1, if it could be shown that - after 10 years of opening - the airport was not financially viable.

[7][8] On 22 November 2012, the South and East Yorkshire Branch of the Federation of Small Businesses launched a campaign and petition against the redevelopment of the airport site.