Originally Posted by
highwideandugly
I was generalising…a lot of money…a really lot of money has been spent on the infrastructure.It would have sent out the wrong messages to shareholders,stakeholders ,investors et al if it closed.
So it had to stay open when other normally busy airports scaled right back?
I think the medical flights can operate un licensed ? Hence you see them overnight when the airport is closed?
Military flights(what’s left of them) I guess could go anywhere?
Essential workers..guess you mean oil flights to Aberdeen..l suppose they could have used the train?
It is a private company based at Teesside Airport whose aircraft are contracted by the MOD to train RAF/ Navy pilots in electronic warfare/ dog fight/ escort. They are up about a dozen times a day. Hence why the airport was kept open.
The passenger terminal was closed for a period, but then reopened to allow essential travel on limited routes.
The essential workers were riggers, they couldn't all get trains as train services were reduced by some margin and at very very reduced capacity because of distancing requirements. So flights allowed more to be transported overall than reliant on just trains, Also an hour's flight is far better than 5 hours on a train.