DURHAM TEES VALLEY AIRPORT - 5
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Agree
Agree on the prices. Tried to get on KLM to Brussels the other week at short notice and the price was horrendous. Went via Leeds instead. Sad that when there are seats available from my struggling local airport, I have to travel elsewhere. Off out from MME this week at a sensible price; hope the snow stays away!
The airport’s owner, Peel Holdings, has now applied to Darlington Borough Council to change a 1.7 hectare section of the car park - more than 900 spaces - into a storage area for caravans, motorhomes and other vehicles for the next three years.
Andy Foulds, commercial director for Durham Tees Valley Airport, said the company had to maximize all business opportunities for the site in order to keep it sustainable...
...in a statement, Mr Foulds said: “Maximising business opportunities for the whole site is important to sustain the airport. In this instance we were approached by an organisation which offers storage facilities for vehicles, including mobile homes, seeking temporary use of a section of our car parking area which is some distance from the terminal and is actually cordoned off at present. If the application is approved it will enable us generate income from an asset which is currently under-used.”
...in a statement, Mr Foulds said: “Maximising business opportunities for the whole site is important to sustain the airport. In this instance we were approached by an organisation which offers storage facilities for vehicles, including mobile homes, seeking temporary use of a section of our car parking area which is some distance from the terminal and is actually cordoned off at present. If the application is approved it will enable us generate income from an asset which is currently under-used.”
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Its well known locally that the car park is not secure and cars are broken into. This sounds like a case of only fools and horses instead of introducing routes.
Can you imagine the look on a visiting CEO's face as he arrived at the airport to discuss new routes. Caravans every where, they will be introducing £200 speeding tickets next
Can you imagine the look on a visiting CEO's face as he arrived at the airport to discuss new routes. Caravans every where, they will be introducing £200 speeding tickets next
Better to have vehicle storage or swathes of empty tarmac ? Neither is ideal but better that there be commercial activity rather than none on the site - signals to airlines that airport management is flexible to say the least. Keeps people in work and gives the airport a bit more life. Perhaps a company might be interested in a warehouse or light industrial unit close to the airport ?
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Neither is ideal but better that there be commercial activity rather than none on the site
There are no outside investors / airlines with the resource to throw at DTV, particularly when there are more attractive propositions both to the North & South.
Airport management have already seen this in their continued pursuance of regional funding for industrial development. To become ecconomically sustainable then then DTV is going to have to operate more in the "airfield" as opposed to "airport" mode, the key being to maintain a runway suitable for purpose.
With such a setup and direction then DTV has a great deal to offer the North East region as a whole. It is down to the developer to get high profile industry names on board, so that others follow & a critical mass built up.
As for caravan storage parks then if nothing else it provides a visual endorsement that something has to change and soon. Care needs to be taken that caravan storage parks never become caravan parks for the homeless !
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Caravan Storage Park
Is this part of an ingenious plan to lure a future Lo-Co - said caravans could be made available in case the Lo-Co has a delayed flight and is obliged to comply with New EU regulations to provide Px accommodation!!!
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Is this part of an ingenious plan to lure a future Lo-Co - said caravans could be made available in case the Lo-Co has a delayed flight and is obliged to comply with New EU regulations to provide Px accommodation!!!
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Time to move out of MSG.
Will this be what the airport entrance will look like when the council give them the go-ahead for this madness? I for one dont want to lose the lead off my roof. Can you imagine what it will look like when Yarm holds it fair.
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I understand at the moment that a major London airport is in dispute with HMRC with regard to cancelled car park arrangements (bookings that are paid for but the vehicle did not turn up).
The airport argues that as a service has not been provided they are entitled under terms of a cancelled contract to retain the VAT element of the payment (the original output element of tax is not balance against input - as in conventional VAT accounting).
The dispute is several million pounds and Freshfields who are acting for the airport are confident of the outcome - based on precedence in EU law.
A move into mobile homes might be missing a point.
The airport argues that as a service has not been provided they are entitled under terms of a cancelled contract to retain the VAT element of the payment (the original output element of tax is not balance against input - as in conventional VAT accounting).
The dispute is several million pounds and Freshfields who are acting for the airport are confident of the outcome - based on precedence in EU law.
A move into mobile homes might be missing a point.
Aberdeen and Amsterdam both down 9% compared to February 2012
Was this down to bad weather, or something else ?
Aberdeen -250 passengers
Amsterdam -693 passengers
Alicante +252 passengers
Add in various odd one-off flights, and MME is down about 590 passengers or 4.5% on Feb 2012 overall
Was this down to bad weather, or something else ?
Aberdeen -250 passengers
Amsterdam -693 passengers
Alicante +252 passengers
Add in various odd one-off flights, and MME is down about 590 passengers or 4.5% on Feb 2012 overall
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security - what security?
Will the airport cover the costs if this happens while parked in the car park? DTV Motorhome crime in 2012
Metal thieves target catalytic converters (From The Northern Echo)
Metal thieves target catalytic converters (From The Northern Echo)
Presume it would be someone elses problem.
The caravan storage would be run by an outside company and would have space for up to 350 vehicles, in an area that is already protected by fencing and airport security.
I understand it's for caravan storage, not occupation.
Two very different usages. Any caravan storage facility has to be fenced and have on-site security in order to be insurance-compliant. If not, owners won't be using it.
There are already around 500 caravans stored around less than a mile from the airport.
The Daily Mail-style hysteria further up the thread about travellers is incorrect.
I'm probably one of the few contributors to the thread that's actually worked there, and I feel deeply saddened whenever I go into the terminal. I spent a couple of years of my young working life in the place. And this proposed plan for alternative use adds another sign of decay to the formerly proud little airport.
Two very different usages. Any caravan storage facility has to be fenced and have on-site security in order to be insurance-compliant. If not, owners won't be using it.
There are already around 500 caravans stored around less than a mile from the airport.
The Daily Mail-style hysteria further up the thread about travellers is incorrect.
I'm probably one of the few contributors to the thread that's actually worked there, and I feel deeply saddened whenever I go into the terminal. I spent a couple of years of my young working life in the place. And this proposed plan for alternative use adds another sign of decay to the formerly proud little airport.
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Some clarification needed here. Surely even if the Potable Water equipment at Teesside was out of order, (frozen perhaps) it would have been more cost effective to load up with bottled water rather then route via Shannon with the extra costs of landing there or is there something else involved. Anyone out there "in the know".
Confirmation that the previously flagged second RGF bid has been submitted
Durham Tees Valley Airport launches fresh bid for growth fund cash (From The Northern Echo)
Durham Tees Valley Airport launches fresh bid for growth fund cash (From The Northern Echo)
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second RGF bid has been submitted :-
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Bit of an irony here in that Phil Wilson's predecessor
believed he "was" the govenment. One wonders as to whether the outcome would have been different....
Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson told The Northern Echo: "I hope the Government listens this time
Bit of an irony here in that Phil Wilson's predecessor
believed he "was" the govenment. One wonders as to whether the outcome would have been different....