Surrey Live
Chris Caulfield
26 Feb 2026
Air pollution, noise, and climate change are three of the reasons Surrey Heath Borough Council is objecting to plans to increase weekend flights at Farnborough Airport.
The business travel hub has a cap on weekends and is looking to increase that as part of a wider push to get to 50,000 annual flights.
The airport has also seen an increase in demand despite only 2.6 people travelling per flight, the February planning committee heard.
The application, part of a neighbouring authority consultation, wants to increase weekend and bank holiday flights from its current limit of 8,900 to 13,500.
As it stands, there are about 30,000 flights using the airport, which sits 1.5km from the border of Surrey Heath, but it has a limit of 50,000 a year.
If the application is approved by neighbouring Rushmoor Borough Council, airport chiefs expect it to reach its capacity by 2033. If it is rejected, that pushes the target date back to 2045.
