DURHAM TEES VALLEY AIRPORT - 4
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Originally Posted by paarmo
Think of it as vehicle excise licence or fuel tax or booze tax or any of the other taxes which this Government have increased recently and stop trying to bamboozle ordinary readers of this particular column by using EGNV instead of the user friendly MME or DTV or Teesside airport. If you can afford to run an aeroplane you can afford to pay the increase. If not then move to an airstrip.
The whole point of the post was to show how short sighted the management are at EGNV/MME. The lack of movements will add to Peel's argument when it wants to turn it into a business park then they will all be out of a job.
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Movements for 2007
Total = 57515
Commercial
Air Transport = 11628
Air Taxi = 374
Positioning Flights = 700
Local Movements = 8692
Non Commercial
Test & Training = 1129
Aero Clubs = 29185
Private = 5749
Offical = 24
Military = 402
Business = 5
Figures for 2007 available
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Total = 57515
Commercial
Air Transport = 11628
Air Taxi = 374
Positioning Flights = 700
Local Movements = 8692
Non Commercial
Test & Training = 1129
Aero Clubs = 29185
Private = 5749
Offical = 24
Military = 402
Business = 5
Figures for 2007 available
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It's been suggested on the bmi/Flyglobespan merger rumour thread, that WW have just gone bust! If true I'll have a damned good laugh and crack open a drink!
Uninformed rubbish, but DTV A I find your gloating at the possibility quite distasteful, there is no reason to "crack open" bottles of wine if it means that hardworking people are going to lose their jobs, you should be ashamed 
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Just been on the BMI website and it is operating normally. Would appear to be either wishful thinking by someone or the usual start a rumour and see what happens.
Pretty sad really. If you want to get a response all you have to do is be controversial rather than malicious. After all people do work for this company and have mortgages etc.
Pretty sad really. If you want to get a response all you have to do is be controversial rather than malicious. After all people do work for this company and have mortgages etc.
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Nothing funny about hard working people loosing their jobs if the rumour had proved to be founded in fact - perhaps a little more consideration and maturity on ur part might not be such a bad idea?
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Ive just put a post on re Baby, DTV i dont believe anyone is saying WW has gone bust, someone stupidly put a rumour on that WW might go bust - i think you have got a bit carried away, as i said in my post on there it is very unhelpful for both employees and consumers to be putting such rumours about and more so to be pleased about it!
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I don't think the news from DTVA is going to be airline related unfortunately....
Here is what I've found from the local paper...
Link to story here...
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/te...4229-20644881/
Here is what I've found from the local paper...
The launch today of a £110m industrial development at Durham Tees Valley Airport is set to generate around 2,000 jobs and attract massive inward investment.
The development will be mostly large-scale industrial and distribution centres on a 250-acre site to the south of the airport. A main road will run through the centre, providing a direct connection with the A67.
The park will offer over 1.9 million sq ft of space and target freight companies and other airport related businesses.
Joe Docherty, chief executive of Tees Valley Regeneration, said the project was another indicator of the Tees Valley’s innovation and ambition.
The development will be mostly large-scale industrial and distribution centres on a 250-acre site to the south of the airport. A main road will run through the centre, providing a direct connection with the A67.
The park will offer over 1.9 million sq ft of space and target freight companies and other airport related businesses.
Joe Docherty, chief executive of Tees Valley Regeneration, said the project was another indicator of the Tees Valley’s innovation and ambition.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/te...4229-20644881/
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Looks like a totally predictable move and also suggested as a likely outcome on many previous postings - 'the opening up of land for none aviation related development' of the DTV site. Should none aviation related business provide greater revenues to Peel than aviation related then who knows as to where it will lead. For my part I hope that it is a success and provides finance for the assistance and promotion of aviation related activities. However being of a cynical nature I see this as back door acquisition of development land by suggestion that it may be aviation related. There are for example a number of
operating very successfully in the UK without the requirement of an airport site.
large-scale industrial and distribution centres
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First off, I'd like to apologise for my WW comment, whereas I am still bitter towards them, hoping that they had gone bust was very harsh, I was fatigued after a hard day at work - I'll put it down to that.
Secondly, this Industrial Estate crap, when they say it's been launched, do they mean building work has actually begun? I was at the end of 05 yesterday and there were surveyors on the southside nearest the 05 end. I love the way how the Industrial Estate was announced long after the aviation-related developments, yet they haven't so much as looked at the new terminal/aircraft stands etc.
Secondly, this Industrial Estate crap, when they say it's been launched, do they mean building work has actually begun? I was at the end of 05 yesterday and there were surveyors on the southside nearest the 05 end. I love the way how the Industrial Estate was announced long after the aviation-related developments, yet they haven't so much as looked at the new terminal/aircraft stands etc.
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South Side development to begin
Durham Tees Valley Airport announced today that the well known explorer Fred Allison has finally reached his destination on the south side of the Airport to begin construction work on a range of new airport buildings. Fred’s intrepid journey into the unknown began 3 years ago when he set off from base camp outside hangar 1 with his trusty old wheelbarrow, clutching a multi million pound contract he’d won to single handedly develop the south side of the airport site. Airport bosses were delighted when they found that his projected costs for the work were substantially lower than those submitted by other well known major contractors, and they believe Fred’s plans will revitalise an area of the airport that was, until recently, completely unknown territory to management.
Fred said the journey had at times been extremely dangerous, particularly when he’d passed the FRA hangar and the Fire dump, explaining that he’d had to rely on food parcels dropped from aircraft, as well as having to sleep under his upturned wheelbarrow every night in order to keep his costs down. He also told of being accosted by people from the Security Tribe half way through the expedition when they ambushed him and took all his liquid supplies during the summer of 2006, and he’d also had to endure occasional hurricane force winds whilst attempting the dangerous crossing of Runway 23. Fred said ‘I’m delighted that I’ve finally arrived at what was, until recently, one of the last great unexplored areas of the country and I’m going to start work immediately’’.
When asked by the local media to pose for a celebratory photograph with his trusty wheelbarrow and spade, Fred was heard to say ‘’Spade? B***er me, I’ve forgotten it, that’ll be another five years before I can start work then, eh ! ’’
Fred said the journey had at times been extremely dangerous, particularly when he’d passed the FRA hangar and the Fire dump, explaining that he’d had to rely on food parcels dropped from aircraft, as well as having to sleep under his upturned wheelbarrow every night in order to keep his costs down. He also told of being accosted by people from the Security Tribe half way through the expedition when they ambushed him and took all his liquid supplies during the summer of 2006, and he’d also had to endure occasional hurricane force winds whilst attempting the dangerous crossing of Runway 23. Fred said ‘I’m delighted that I’ve finally arrived at what was, until recently, one of the last great unexplored areas of the country and I’m going to start work immediately’’.
When asked by the local media to pose for a celebratory photograph with his trusty wheelbarrow and spade, Fred was heard to say ‘’Spade? B***er me, I’ve forgotten it, that’ll be another five years before I can start work then, eh ! ’’
Skylink International Business Park
Bit more detail from the Evening Gazette:
"Airport md Hugh Lang said the park, which will have airside access, would help it reach a 2015 target to take cargo through the terminal from 1,000t pa to 26,000t. It also complemented plans to develop airside facilities, including maintenance hangers and passenger handling improvements.
“The whole North-east is under-serviced in terms of airfreight,” said Mr Lang. “Newcastle is only doing 2,000t pa. Most of it is consolidated freight from Heathrow or London Stansted. We see an increase in airfreight moving out of London due to capacity problems. We predict airlines will move out of London airports to the regions and we have to add more value than just being a point of discharge for passengers.”
He said Tees Valley was ideally placed for the development of a large-scale logistics industry and improvements to the Long Newton interchange, due to be completed this summer, would make Skylink easily accessible from all points north and south."
"Airport md Hugh Lang said the park, which will have airside access, would help it reach a 2015 target to take cargo through the terminal from 1,000t pa to 26,000t. It also complemented plans to develop airside facilities, including maintenance hangers and passenger handling improvements.
“The whole North-east is under-serviced in terms of airfreight,” said Mr Lang. “Newcastle is only doing 2,000t pa. Most of it is consolidated freight from Heathrow or London Stansted. We see an increase in airfreight moving out of London due to capacity problems. We predict airlines will move out of London airports to the regions and we have to add more value than just being a point of discharge for passengers.”
He said Tees Valley was ideally placed for the development of a large-scale logistics industry and improvements to the Long Newton interchange, due to be completed this summer, would make Skylink easily accessible from all points north and south."