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
Doncaster Sheffield Airport railway station was opened up at Finningley in 1867 on the Doncaster–Lincoln line. It was closed in 1961, but used sporadically over the next twenty years to bring people to RAF Finningley's annual airshow. The airport was opened up to civilian traffic in 1996 when the Royal Air Force left. Reopening the former railway station at on the Doncaster–Lincoln line was mooted before DSA proposed a new build railway in late 2016, with formal talks with Network Rail being held in 2017. The plan would be to build a new section of railway looping southwards off the Doncaster–Lincoln Line, heading through the