Press Release

Issued by Gloucestershire Airport Ltd.

October 16, 2012

Gloucestershire Airport passed a major milestone today when the Civil Aviation Authority officially published its increased runway distances. Although only 12m of additional tarmac have been laid, the removal of obstacles nearby and creation of an overrun RESA means the landing distances available for aircraft have increased by up to 150m.

The increases are as a result of a package of safety measures the Airport has implemented as part of its Runway Safety Project, which has seen houses demolished and rebuilt, a new entrance road created and a section of a brook culverted and diverted past the end of the Staverton tarmac. Runway 27 has also been upgraded for Cat 1 ILS approaches.

Head of operations, Darren Lewington said: - "This is arguably the most significant point in the project, which maximises the potential of our Code 2 runway. The extra runway distances will make a significant difference to the corporate and business operators that currently use the Airport and will generate additional business for us.

With the closure of Filton airport near Bristol at the end of the year, there is already additional demand from corporate aircraft flying to the southwest of Engand. Being minutes from the M5, we're well placed to capture that traffic."

The final stage of the project sees the installation of an Instrument Landing System (ILS), complementing the existing suite of non-precision approaches including GNSS.

"We expect the ILS to be fully functional within the next six weeks and the procedure to be published in the early 2013 AIRAC cycles.

The new overall runway dimension are 1431m(4693ft) x 30m, with LDA increasing to 1241m (4070ft) on runway 09 and 1147m (3762ft) on runway 27.