Interesting articles on DTVA
Flightmapping dot com (no, I'd never heard of the before, either...) have a couple of intersting articles on DTVA. The first quotes DTVA business development manager Mark Clarkson saying: “We are looking to establish these routes as soon as possible. We have had a number of productive meetings with several different carriers about starting new routes . There are always going to be a number of regional routes which an airport like ourselves can offer which will appeal to low-cost airlines.”
The second has an analysis of "Likely Contenders for Durham Tees Valley flights" and concludes "As we think it likely that Flyglobespan were already making plans to offer more routes from Durham before the BmiBaby announcement, we would still place them as the favourites. Most of the other airlines listed above would probably be much more likely to make a switch at some stage next year, rather than in the immediate future. We also have to consider the possibility of more than one airline coming in at the same time. No-frills airlines don't usually like to collaborate with each other, but there might well be some routes which will be more suited to smaller aircraft, and others where slightly larger jets would be more appropriate."