DURHAM TEES VALLEY AIRPORT - 5
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VERY touchy Andrew C.
Back to the point in question. Would anyone like to start up a Friends of Tesco or Unilever or Arriva Buses? It's the same principle. Teesside Airport is a commercial enterprise and should be recruiting it's own friends through it's own efforts to give customers what they want. Send the staff Christmas cards and lots of complimentary comments by all means if you must but Friends Of ? Get real they will drop anyone like a brick if it suits their purpose.
Back to the point in question. Would anyone like to start up a Friends of Tesco or Unilever or Arriva Buses? It's the same principle. Teesside Airport is a commercial enterprise and should be recruiting it's own friends through it's own efforts to give customers what they want. Send the staff Christmas cards and lots of complimentary comments by all means if you must but Friends Of ? Get real they will drop anyone like a brick if it suits their purpose.
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FoLA have existed for over 30yrs and if you want to know more just visit their website fola.org.uk FoDSA are a new organisation set up when Finningley was still under development with help from FoLA.
LPLsprog, thanks for the correction, DonnySteve, ive checked their websites before and have never really understood exactly what they do. I know they public support groups for the airports but what do they contribute in terms of moving the airport forward? I ask as a genuine question and im not trying to undermine any members.
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I'm sure this may have been covered before but currently back in the UK and visiting friends in Yarm for a holiday
Looking along the A19 and the A689/90 Hartlepool Road, everything still says Teesside Airport and some of those signs are new!
The hotel I was staying in offered a pick up service from Teesside Airport and the lovely Katherine at Tourist Information sent me a lovely info pack and details of flights from....need I say?
My point is probably made
Looking along the A19 and the A689/90 Hartlepool Road, everything still says Teesside Airport and some of those signs are new!
The hotel I was staying in offered a pick up service from Teesside Airport and the lovely Katherine at Tourist Information sent me a lovely info pack and details of flights from....need I say?
My point is probably made
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FoLA was originally set up to promote the airport when it was in local authority control. The council didn't have much money for promoting the services from the airport so FoLA was formed to carry out publicity duties for them on a voluntary basis. They toured local travel agents and shows with airport information and generally made the public around Merseyside aware that there were flights available from their local airport without having to travel to airports further away.
In addition to this publicity role, these days FoLA carry out the airport tours and have built up a good reputation with schools in the area. They also have had schools visiting from far away places i.e. Kent, who combine a visit to the city of Liverpool with a tour of the airport. A lot of colleges bring their sixth form Travel and Tourism students as part of their GCSE studies.
This is only part of the activities they carry out, hope this makes it more clearer.
FoLA was originally set up to promote the airport when it was in local authority control. The council didn't have much money for promoting the services from the airport so FoLA was formed to carry out publicity duties for them on a voluntary basis. They toured local travel agents and shows with airport information and generally made the public around Merseyside aware that there were flights available from their local airport without having to travel to airports further away.
In addition to this publicity role, these days FoLA carry out the airport tours and have built up a good reputation with schools in the area. They also have had schools visiting from far away places i.e. Kent, who combine a visit to the city of Liverpool with a tour of the airport. A lot of colleges bring their sixth form Travel and Tourism students as part of their GCSE studies.
This is only part of the activities they carry out, hope this makes it more clearer.
Thanks for the info LPLsprog, that makes much more sense, however i do wonder if that is the purpose of later incarnations at other airports? Or is it just another way of gleaning information on what airlines they have been talking to this month and could they say 'i would use a service to (ad infinitum) twice a year'? Even though they probably would'nt...
Such a service at all three airports could serve as a benefit, but not if its just to serve the wishes of a few enthusiasts on seeing their local airport get more flights.
Such a service at all three airports could serve as a benefit, but not if its just to serve the wishes of a few enthusiasts on seeing their local airport get more flights.
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Another reason for not closing the airport. The RAF and lots of other NATO Airforces love the place. An RAF Tristar was pulling aeronautical wheelies over Middlesbrough today and pretending to land at Teesside.Couldn't do that over Heathrow could he?
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the tristar was class!,.....people in thornaby were just stoping in there tracks watching it being flung about!!!!,....kept the kids amused for 5 minutes!
Do the raf have their "favourite" airports where they do their training?,....or is it that the airspace is relativley quiet up here and they can pretty much do what they like?.....would they pay the airport for the services they provide?,....sorry if its a daft question,...just wondering.
Keep the faith lads
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Do the raf have their "favourite" airports where they do their training?,....or is it that the airspace is relativley quiet up here and they can pretty much do what they like?.....would they pay the airport for the services they provide?,....sorry if its a daft question,...just wondering.
Keep the faith lads
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In the good old days crew training was the norm at Teesside two or occationally three airliners at once mixed with a number of jet provosts.
I wonder if the NIMBYs were on the phone about the Tristar and VC-10s.
The VAS team are supposidly coming soon to see what they have bought.
I wonder if the NIMBYs were on the phone about the Tristar and VC-10s.
The VAS team are supposidly coming soon to see what they have bought.
NATO Airforces
Interested like Skyman ..As a regular visitor to DTV..PAARMO can you explain the statement RAF and NATO love us? Only see the occasional Tucano and Typhoon these days> Also do we get much revenue from these movemnets or do they just annoy the locals with the noise!! and upset ATC with the extra work??
does anyone have a program for next year yet are we expecting bigger and better things or will it be just more of the same?
does anyone have a program for next year yet are we expecting bigger and better things or will it be just more of the same?
does anyone have a program for next year yet are we expecting bigger and better things
