Amsterdam and Paris are the most likely destinations for scheduled services when Sheffield City airport opens late in 1997. Plans for the privately funded airport are expected to be unveiled on 9 May. The northern English city of Sheffield, reputedly, the largest in Europe without an airport, was to have had one in 1993. The previous developers, however, met financial trouble after much of the preparatory work had been completed on a site east of the city at Tinsley. The original £15 million ($23 million) proposal envisaged a 1,200m (4,000ft) runway.
Source: Flight International