DURHAM TEES VALLEY AIRPORT - 5
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Doesnt time fly...
January 2010 since my last posting and thought I would pay a visit to PPrune to see how our local airport is being reported and developing.Full of expectation and enthusiasm I have looked through the threads..
Oh dear...see you in a year!!(possibly)
Oh dear...see you in a year!!(possibly)
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Read the article & clearly something not right ! It's open to conjecture as to whether Mike didn't get on with Peel or vice versa. One presumes that coming into Peel late on in his career didn't help, - possibly someone got upset about the Passenger Facility Fee...
Brief C.V. -
So the obvious question, is Mike still with Peel down at Doncaster ? On another note the three replies posted to the article read like a repetition of comments regularly aired on this thread, hmmmmmm!
Brief C.V. -
Mike was once a trained mining engineer. However, due to the government policy of some 20 years ago, that industry was run down. Eventually, despite achieving his ambition of running his own colliery, he had to change direction. His aviation career began in 1996 when he joined BA World Cargo before moving on to work for Servisair and Coventry Airport. He joined the Peel Airports Group as the Director of Robin Hood Doncaster Airport in 2008 - a position he still holds - and added Director, Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA), to his job titles in June 2010.
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No Mike's not at DSA either, he's gone completely. His Liverpool counterpart has gone as well - I believe they're getting rid of what they consider to be an unnecessary level of management and as such they won't be replaced and one guy will oversee all three facilities.
Ten firefighters have also been made redundant.
Ten firefighters have also been made redundant.
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From this mornings Yorkshire Post
Airport chief leaving ‘to pursue new challenges’
Published on Saturday 16 July 2011 06:00
AIRPORT director Mike Morton has announced he has left Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport to “pursue new challenges.”
A spokesman for Peel Airports, which runs the airport at Finningley, said: “Mike has been with Peel Airports since 2008 and his passion for the business has been apparent to all those he has met during his time at the Airport.
“Mike is looking forward to his next challenge and will be well remembered by all who have had the pleasure of working with him over the years. The airport company wish him every success for the future.
“The process has begun to find a new airport director and, given the significance of the role and importance of the airport to the region, Peel Airports will be looking to find a suitable replacement as soon as possible.
“An announcement regarding Mike’s successor will be made in due course.”
They added that it would be “business as usual” during the busy summer period.
Airport chief leaving ‘to pursue new challenges’
Published on Saturday 16 July 2011 06:00
AIRPORT director Mike Morton has announced he has left Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport to “pursue new challenges.”
A spokesman for Peel Airports, which runs the airport at Finningley, said: “Mike has been with Peel Airports since 2008 and his passion for the business has been apparent to all those he has met during his time at the Airport.
“Mike is looking forward to his next challenge and will be well remembered by all who have had the pleasure of working with him over the years. The airport company wish him every success for the future.
“The process has begun to find a new airport director and, given the significance of the role and importance of the airport to the region, Peel Airports will be looking to find a suitable replacement as soon as possible.
“An announcement regarding Mike’s successor will be made in due course.”
They added that it would be “business as usual” during the busy summer period.
Fire fighters
The big question here is, if they are making ten fire fighters redundant are they reduceing the fire category of the airport thus restricting the availability to larger jets? Might this be why we haven't seen any MOD flights for some time now.
Vancouver Air Services
Not 100% sure how long they haver been pulling the ropes/threads/hang mans noose at TEESSIDE but given that they have had more than a little time to sort out ongoing problems..to coin a phrase.."What have VAS ever done for us" !!
Now we had irrigation,we had roads(just) and we had a dedicated staff..if anything they have had a less positive impact than any other owner.
Rather than start a campaign to change the name..how about a campaign to get rid of these 'foreign johnies' !!
Now that redundencies are hitting the core of the airport(AFS) then how can we ever recover ?
Im going to the pub!!
Now we had irrigation,we had roads(just) and we had a dedicated staff..if anything they have had a less positive impact than any other owner.
Rather than start a campaign to change the name..how about a campaign to get rid of these 'foreign johnies' !!
Now that redundencies are hitting the core of the airport(AFS) then how can we ever recover ?
Im going to the pub!!
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DTVairport
This sounds logical if looked at in one dimension, as to the situaution at DTV & with other redundancies necessary, then perhaps Mike's salary may have been one expense too much, though one presumes in presiding over both Doncaster & DTV then this was a shared overhead. Continuing on the same tack then perhaps Doncaster could not support 100% of his salary & so there was no place left for him to go. However on moving this view forwards, then I can't see how LPL could run without an operations director, and thus if this position has also been made redundant then it must be that the location of the office has simply moved down the road to Manchester. One way or another IF this is what has been affected then Mike & another at LPL certainly appear to have a serious TUPE tribuneral claim, something that I can't believe that Peel would allow to happen
Hmmmm....
I believe they're getting rid of what they consider to be an unnecessary level of management and as such they won't be replaced and one guy will oversee all three facilities.
Hmmmm....
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I believe the firefighters will be working a different shift pattern or different number of hours, so that they can still cover the same operational period. But I only heard that second hand, so may be wrong.
Did anyone hear the Vancouver Airports representative on BBC Tees news this morning? Was talking about Mike going, with all the usual "we wish him all the best" spile, but also said something along the lines of "we can't believe how difficult it has been to attract airlines and routes to the airport"
On the one hand, it's great to hear someone from VAS talk about the place (he had a Canadian accent and everything!), but on the other, it still doesn't give you any hope for the future...
Did anyone hear the Vancouver Airports representative on BBC Tees news this morning? Was talking about Mike going, with all the usual "we wish him all the best" spile, but also said something along the lines of "we can't believe how difficult it has been to attract airlines and routes to the airport"
On the one hand, it's great to hear someone from VAS talk about the place (he had a Canadian accent and everything!), but on the other, it still doesn't give you any hope for the future...
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It is a bit worrying if he has said they are finding it very difficult to attract airlines and routes to the airport - I wonder how much the £6 fee is putting airlines off - We would still have Ryanair to Alicante, and you never know maybe also Tenerife and Faro like Doncaster?
Passengers figures in June are a bit mixed -
Jersey down 20%
Bourgas down 39%
Both down due to the fee?
But Amsterdam is holding up ok, only down 3% compared with last year and that is with the fee and the lunchtime flight instead of the teatime flight ( Maybe a case for KLM to have a lunchtime and a teatime flight
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Dalaman is holding up only 1% down on last year and Southampton is up 30%,Aberdeen up 2% and Palma up 35% So it seems the fee has not put off Eastern Airways passengers yet!
Also I wish the MP and the Gazette that are trying to get the name changed back, would put more effort into getting people to use the airport rather than a confusing name change again.
Passengers figures in June are a bit mixed -
Jersey down 20%
Bourgas down 39%
Both down due to the fee?
But Amsterdam is holding up ok, only down 3% compared with last year and that is with the fee and the lunchtime flight instead of the teatime flight ( Maybe a case for KLM to have a lunchtime and a teatime flight
) Dalaman is holding up only 1% down on last year and Southampton is up 30%,Aberdeen up 2% and Palma up 35% So it seems the fee has not put off Eastern Airways passengers yet!
Also I wish the MP and the Gazette that are trying to get the name changed back, would put more effort into getting people to use the airport rather than a confusing name change again.
dtv figures
mme thanks for that post.
do you have the full figures?
from what you said most are down..KLM I am worried about..in my experience when airlines start moving schedules arouns it usually means future cuts!! my guess is the 3rd rotation will go this winter not sure what the connections are like but i do know from experience loads are not good on this flight.
i know summer brochures are hitting the shelves..anyone know if increases next year.
one final thing any of our older!! readers remember Polar Airways at MMe?? when did they operate??
do you have the full figures?
from what you said most are down..KLM I am worried about..in my experience when airlines start moving schedules arouns it usually means future cuts!! my guess is the 3rd rotation will go this winter not sure what the connections are like but i do know from experience loads are not good on this flight.
i know summer brochures are hitting the shelves..anyone know if increases next year.
one final thing any of our older!! readers remember Polar Airways at MMe?? when did they operate??
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I have a picture of a Polar Airways Viscount, in BAF colour scheme.
Didn't they used to do cargo at night and passengers in the day? Wonder if they inspired Jet2
As for passenger figures - is the Bourgas one down so much simply because it is a split load with Glasgow this year?
Didn't they used to do cargo at night and passengers in the day? Wonder if they inspired Jet2
As for passenger figures - is the Bourgas one down so much simply because it is a split load with Glasgow this year?
Passenger figures
Had a few minutes so thought I would do a little check on the current figures.
According to a well respected site we currently have had 103500 passengers(dont forget thats really only 51750 outbound) to the end of June.
Projecting forward using approx.the same percentage figures,I make it an expected total of around 210000 give or take for the year.That takes us back to the 1973 ish level.With no real extra flights to come and the MOD flights all but dried up...Where will the revenue come from to keep DTV afloat?
Doesnt really make good reading..wonder what plans VAS have to generate more business??
According to a well respected site we currently have had 103500 passengers(dont forget thats really only 51750 outbound) to the end of June.
Projecting forward using approx.the same percentage figures,I make it an expected total of around 210000 give or take for the year.That takes us back to the 1973 ish level.With no real extra flights to come and the MOD flights all but dried up...Where will the revenue come from to keep DTV afloat?
Doesnt really make good reading..wonder what plans VAS have to generate more business??