The Mayor's plan for Teesside is Peel's masterplan but with the taxpayer pumping in a large amount of public money (which has an opportunity cost) rather than getting funding from the private sector as Peel proposed by building houses on marginal airport land which had no impact on the airports operation.
My point was that there isn't any indication that ideas such as the logisitcs one above are being thought about or proposed (and is any politician going to shut a 'much-loved' passenger terminal ?). All we are getting in the media is "wibble, foam and froth" from self-publicists, with no sense that there is anything serious going on.
Much talk of DSA and its cargo record but apart from ad hoc charters, there's only been the twice weekly produce flights on a consistent basis. Is there really the demand for that scale of air freight operation (one thinks also of Manston here). The statement from Esken about the loss of the freighters from Southend said "the global logistics partner has now advised LSA that it will cease operations in line with a change of strategic focus from air freight to road-based cargo." - The global logistics partner is believed to be Amazon, though don't think it's ever been publically confirmed.