High wide I think you will find the Thomson delay was a LBA knock on and nothing to do with Teesside.
Losing Ryanair is not the worst news in the world. Their ALC flight was always well populated and so their assertion that the route was being pulled in November before the passenger surcharge is strange.Eastern and KLM both disagree with the surcharge and both say so in public. KLM have never to my knowledge disagreed with MME policy publicly even when the strangest ideas of the so called management team were released.
This appears to be the tipping point for the Canadians. Have they something up their sleeves or are they about to close the airport and commit professional suicide? If they close then no one will ever believe them again and their promises will count for nothing.