Durham Tees Valley Airport reports more passengers on key route (From The Northern Echo)
Report on local radio also states that for the year as a whole Aberdeen and Amsterdam are up, but overall figures are down. It appears that there is a core of business users who are making money for Eastern and KLM (as can be seen by the recent holiday period, when this group doesn't fly the airlines don't).
Key now seems to be expanding from this core base or making enough from other activities on the airfield to keep going.
As regards Peels profits, if DTVA can put forward a business case that will give a decent return on investment then they might get some - otherwise its minimising the losses until the ecenomy turns.