Some guesses in response to H77's comments
Draken expansion
Construction of Hangar 361 and occupation with 8x Honey Badgers arriving and start operations.
Clearly a good thing. Increase in activity and good quality jobs from the additional aircraft. How was the hangar funded, I'd expect a significant contribution from TVCA/the airport?
2Excel 2x 727s temporary base at airport after Doncaster closed down.
Willis Aviation work builds up.
Again, both good things albiet 2Excel was a short term gain. It will be interesting to see how Willis develop - they are doing things at Teesside that they don't do anywhere else in their group. What happened to the Regional airliner maintenance centre that was quoted as being operational in the planning application for the new development?
TVCA moved into Airport offices.
Property rentals.
All good things, but return on investment would be interesting. Also parties and fashion shows in the terminal
110k extra passengers, so extra spending in shops/ cafes/ bars/ car parking.
A lot of money has been spent on the terminal, and getting RYR in was a coup. But it has all gone a bit flat. It's clear from RYR's behaviour that they aren't making loadsamoney, and they almost appear to be in 'contractural obligation' mode. Are the shops/cafes/bars making a return on the money spent on them? Global connectivity has gone down the list of priorities - how much would have to have been spent to keep KLM happy? I would suspect not much, so the terminal investments main benefit seems to have been to let Teessiders have a shorter journey to go on holiday - hmmm...
1230 extra aircraft movements.
I'd expect the bulk of these to be Draken and other residents who presumely pay a flat fee per year rather than per movement. Where do Draken source their fuel from? From the airport, or do they have their own supply?
Cargo numbers start to be built up.
Cargo numbers are sporadic to say the least. Based on Teesside Movements 2023 year to date figures it's 70 odd tonnes. If Bill Darlington's figure of £60 per tonne is correct, isn't paying for the cargo managers compnay car, let alone starting to repay the £3m (?) invested in cargo handling. Can only be called a disappointing start.
Unless anybody knows otherwise, all of this is Nissan related so clearly it is a good thing to be supporting one of the Northeasts biggest employers even if it is outside the TVCA area.
PS - anybody else think "Honey Badger" is the sort of nickname Michael Gove made up for himself in the hope that the big lads thought it "cool"? L-159's please!