Paarmo
It's either the houses or the airport and not both
Precisely ! & in proceeding with a policy of undermining the airport, as in step one “withdraw all IT flights”, then it appears that the strategy of Peel has already been taken to address this particular issue.
However note does need to be made that there are a number of reasons as to why DTV has not been successful in recent years that are nothing to do with Peel, i.e. that fundamentally the whole area economy has declined / changed and there is no longer no giant petrochemical / steel industry remaining on Teesside, replaced by what ? service industries, & small pockets of overseas investment? ….DTV / Teesside airport, call it what you may, has simply followed the trend.