Editing Kent (section)

===Air===
[[Charter flight]]s are provided by [[Lydd Airport]] at [[Lydd]].

In 2002, it was revealed that the government was considering building a new four-runway airport on the marshland near the village of [[Cliffe, Kent|Cliffe]] on [[Hoo Peninsula]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Airport plan threatens Dickens' legacy |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2093415.stm |date=12 September 2006 |access-date=20 June 2007 |first=Matthew |last=Davis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060529201422/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2093415.stm |archive-date=29 May 2006 |url-status=live }}</ref> This plan was dropped in 2003 following protests by cultural and environmental groups.<ref>{{cite news |title=Saving nature |work=The Times |location=London |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/related_features/love_nature/article3625154.ece |date=23 March 2008 |access-date=6 September 2009 |first=Advertisement |last=Feature |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529150444/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/related_features/love_nature/article3625154.ece |archive-date=29 May 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> However further plans for a [[Thames Estuary Airport]] on the Kent coast have subsequently emerged, including the [[Thames Hub Airport]], again sited on the [[Isle of Grain]] and designed by [[Lord Foster]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Gwyn Topham and Nicholas Watt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jan/18/boris-island-thames-estuary-airport-grounded |title='Boris Island' airport plan grounded over Johnson's briefing to Telegraph |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714135731/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jan/18/boris-island-thames-estuary-airport-grounded |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="teleairport">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/9111714/Nature-blow-to-plans-for-Boris-Island.html |title=Nature blow to plans for "Boris Island" |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028172248/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/9111714/Nature-blow-to-plans-for-Boris-Island.html |archive-date=28 October 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> and the London Britannia Airport plan, colloquially known as "[[Boris Island]]" due to its being championed by the former [[Mayor of London]] [[Boris Johnson]], which would see a six runway airport built on an artificial island to be towards the [[Shivering Sands Army Fort|Shivering Sands]] area, north-east of [[Whitstable]].<ref name="teleairport" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24895965 |title='Boris Island' London Airport designs unveiled |work=BBC News |date=11 November 2013 |access-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709113014/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24895965 |archive-date=9 July 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Both of these options were dropped in 2014 in favour of expansion at either Gatwick or Heathrow Airport, the latter finally being the chosen option following Theresa May's installation as Prime Minister in summer 2016.

[[Manston Airport]], located near the village of [[Manston, Kent|Manston]] in the [[Thanet District|Thanet district]], was a former [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] facility that also handled some civilian flights. It closed in 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 May 2014 |title=Threatened airport to shut next week |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-27294532 |access-date=6 July 2020 |archive-date=27 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727123741/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-27294532 |url-status=live }}</ref>