compton - I completely agree with you. I was rather hoping that by comparing 22 miles against 250 miles in a matter-of-fact way, people would realise that the much greater distance means London-MME is not comparable to Amsterdam-Lelystad and so the idea of moving London or East Midlands based traffic to Teesside, be it passenger or cargo, is not economically viable.
The only aiports from which MME might possibly gain spillover traffic from a purely geographical proximity standpoint are Newcastle, or at a push, Leeds. Neither of these 2 airports seem particularly capacity constrained and there seems to be little reason for any traffic from these 2 airports to need to move to MME. For passenger and cargo MME has to survive almost entirely on economic activity in Teesside and the surrounding area alone.
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 28th Aug 2012 at 12:00.