Originally Posted by
AirportPlanner1
And therein is the answer. Why should the Mayor pay £500k so you can drive a few miles less to go on your holiday? What economic benefit and how many jobs does you heading to Majorca for a week bring to the Teeside area?
Oh yes I can understand that argument, but why shouldn't Durham Tees Valley just have some holiday flights to serve the local market .. that what was on the table so just using it as an example.
So if the Mayor is to pay millions of pounds to buy the airport do you think he will be able to attract flights to London, Frankfurt, Paris, Bristol.. and loads of other business destinations?
Or will the first flights be leisure flights? If you look on the Save Teesside Airport facebook page as to what the people want - it is to fly from their local airport on their holiday..
Anyway I have a solution - Peel should try and bury the bad news and just pay the £500k themselves and get the new flights announced!
