Doncaster Sheffield Airport Doncaster Sheffield Airport Doncaster Sheffield Airport , formerly named "Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield", is an international airport located at the former RAF Finningley station, in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster within South Yorkshire, England. The airport lies southeast of Doncaster Town Centre and east of Sheffield. Handling 1.33 million passengers in 2017, the airport is the smaller of Yorkshire's two large commercial airports, the other being Leeds Bradford Airport. The airport opened to passengers in 2005. It was initially operated by Peel Airports, a division of The Peel Group, who at the time also owned and managed Liverpool John
Heathrow Airport the postcode TW6. As the airport is located west of London and as its runways run east–west, an airliner's landing approach is usually directly over the conurbation of London when the wind is from the west, which is most of the time. Along with Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, Southend and London City, Heathrow is one of six airports with scheduled services serving the London area. Heathrow Airport originated in 1929 as a small airfield (Great West Aerodrome) on land south-east of the hamlet of Heathrow from which the airport takes its name. At that time there were farms, market gardens and