Lolland-Falster Airport at Holeby seems in the future to be a matter for the cultural and leisure committees in the two owner municipalities rather than the business and economic committees. It will increasingly be tuned cars, parachute clubs and recreational purposes that will benefit from Denmark’s only approved international airport south of Roskilde.
Great activity background for growth ambitions
The airport committee had proposed that the future strategy for Lolland-Falster Airport should be more business and tourist flights. The background for the growth ambitions for the airport is that the great activity in the area that the Fermern project entails will also lead to an increase in both private and business flights. Lolland-Falster Airport is just ten kilometres from the Femernbyggeriet.
Upgrade and renovation
A strategic investment in business and leisure aviation would mean that the airport was upgraded to a so-called AFIS (Aerodome Flight Information Service) airport and underwent a thorough renovation. This should then lay the groundwork for a communication and marketing effort so that the airport could grow and attract more traffic.
Not realistic
But in the run-up to the airport committee meeting on 23 February, the owners – Lolland and Guldborgsund municipalities – instead plan to drop their growth ambitions.
It may seem paradoxical that the airport committee’s objectives and courses of action are again concentrating on upgrading and increasing commercial aviation when the two city councils have indicated that they do not find it likely that this is a realistic scenario and therefore have not wanted to invest in that direction, Lolland Municipality writes in its recommendation.
Savings and recreational use
Instead, the administration recommends that the airport committee at the next meeting adjust the strategy on four points:
The focal point of the strategy is changed to leisure use, i.e. the most important target group are clubs, associations and leisure users. In the strategy, work must be done on the possibilities for the facilities to become available to more people, that is to say, recreational use opportunities for more target groups. It must be clarified which possible scenarios there may be for increased income. It must be clarified what options there may be to reduce expenses, states the administration’s recommendation.
The final strategy for Lolland-Falster Airport must be approved by Guldborgsund and Lolland municipalities in May.
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