Hopes high or pie in the sky? Could commercial flights return to Carlisle Lake District Airport?

ITV News · ITV News · 2026-11-03 17:49 UTC

The future of Carlisle Airport has been debated in a Cumberland Council meeting.

A move to secure the long-term future of Carlisle Lake District Airport has been discussed at a Cumberland Council meeting.

No passenger flights have taken off from the airport since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now a new motion has called for council Leader Mark Fryer to speak to airlines, local MPs and owners A.W. Jenkinson Group to get commercial flights back off the ground.

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