Closed UK airport to launch summer music festival with fairground, VIP areas and camping right by the runway
EVER looked at an airport runway and thought how cool it would be to walk it?
Well, now you can as later this summer an abandoned airport in the UK will be hosting a huge music festival, that you can even camp at.
Love on the Runway music festival will take place across two days between August 29 and 31 at Manston Airport in Ramsgate, Kent.
There will be house, techno and DnB music across two stages for guests to enjoy.
The festival will also have food and drink stalls, for when you need a bite to eat or drink between dancing.
To add some fun, there will also be a fairground ideal for families.
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Other features of the festival include chill out zones and a number of VIP areas.
Little other details have been revealed about the festival yet.
Visitors can book camping passes for £103, which allow for a pitch with up to 10 people (so £10.30 per person) or a camper van.
And with each camping pass, one weekend festival pass is included (so other guests camping at the pitch will need to purchase their own festival ticket).
A regular weekend pass costs from £37 per person or you can get four for £112.50.
If you fancy heading to the festival for just one day, you can do so for £22 and kids go free.
And the festival will have a cheap shuttle bus from Thanet Parkway Station if travelling to the festival via train.
Manston Airport closed back in 2014 and was used as a former RAF base and a regional hub, flying Brits abroad from the 1960s.
Airlines that used the airport included Monarch Airlines, KLM and Flybe.
However, there are current talks to see if the airport could reopen, with the return of flights scheduled for 2029 – however this will be for cargo aircraft only.
Initially, the airport planned to reopen in 2025, but this has been pushed back.