... the thing to do is make the best of it, which i think Hugh and his mob are trying to do........ i dont think many could do better.
NO WAY !!!
If ever there was an example of how
not to run an airport, & the burying of 'heads in the sand' then DTV, formerly Teesside is it. As the presiding MD then 'Hughie' has to accept total responsibility and should have long ago done the correct thing and stood down. During his tenure the airport has recorded a commendable negative growth whilst virtually every other airfield in the UK has prospered. Even when analysing his press releases he comes over as a complete baffoon
. A classic example out of too many to quote here was his press statement in the Guardian on 28 October 04 when he made a couple of interesting points, firstly when defending the DTV name change
...Durham is only about 20 miles from the airport. ..but you could walk into Darlington from Durham Tees Valley.
and
..Even though the airport is already in the throes of a major expansion programme, the name change wasn't cheap
really! & 'well in the sand' at this point no doubt. Still it does go some way to explain some of the issues as to accessibility which clearly Hughie appears to not quite understand if he envisages that even one pax is expecting to WALK to DTV ! Presume in the latter he was referring to tidying up the pax terminal, commendable
