SWBKCB 'Finally - it's the people of Teesside who haven't shown commitment to the airport.'
This shows how far out of the loop you are! Facts are that people used the airport when the operators were there providing services they wanted.
bmi messed the schedules around on the LHR so people wouldn't want to use the service and then when numbers dropped they cut the route!
People were using the bmibaby flights and they also used the Flyglobespan services. Holiday flights always have high load factors too.
In aviation you need the service provider to provide what the customer wants, if they don't provide the service the public can't use it!
If airlines put the service on with a sensible schedule then people will use the airport. Facts are only a few years ago almost 1 million were using the airport. I'm not saying that the airport will be back to that level overnight but people who were using the airport didn't just overnight decide not to use the place!
Finally it's not just people from Teesside who use the airport. I'm from North Yorkshire, certainly not Teesside!