DURHAM TEES VALLEY AIRPORT - 5

[DTVAirport]

I was reluctant to post this as there is too much bad news comes out of DTVA, but I suppose it'll get published sooner or later so might as well be now.

KLM are dropping one, possibly two, of the weekend rotations, if memory serves I think it's the Saturday 1535/1536/1539 and the Sunday 1530.

It won't have a massive effect on pax numbers though as these services have been running practically empty for years anyway.

[Northbound A1]

To think what the numbers were back in 2006.
Its like a ghost town today.
DTV Movements

[N707ZS]

Those KLM flights were also stopped in the eighties for a bit and re-introduced.

I hear the farmer on the Southside has been given the land back that was to become the access road, the gas pipeline finished that access route off.

[mmegh]

KLM have canx the KL1539 on a Saturday night and KL1530 Sunday morning until October, For the past few years they have canx the Saturday afternoon flights mainly, having looked into this, cancelling the last flight on the Sat and first on Sun disrupts less pax

[davidjohnson6]

From what date are the KLM weekend cancellations effective ? Immediate or in 4 weeks time ?

[fl dutchman]

I think its from 29th April. Saves a nightstop! "Current" schedules show its reinstated from the end of OCT.

[Northbound A1]

Shares about to rise?

Thats if its still open in Oct?

Peel have been busy buying other shares and expecting them to rise according to this article.
MIDAS: Property tycoon Whittaker snaps up Ł3.2m shares in Capital malls | This is Money

Comment in the Mail on Sunday.

Sunday newspaper share tips: CSC, Avocet, Domino's Pizza, ABG, International Power and Hambledon | Mail Online

Billionaire financier John Whittaker is placing his faith – and his cash – in out-of-town shopping malls.
Whittaker, 70, is chairman of The Peel Group, a privately owned firm that he has built up over the past 40 years. But he is also deputy chairman of Capital Shopping Centres after selling the Trafford Centre in Manchester to it in return for a 20 per cent stake.

Worth $1.7BN
John Whittaker - Forbes

[Robert-Ryan]

Partly true - and it's not a fully gone conclusion yet I don't think.

FRA are going nowhere but the Calibrators are looking at moving to Bournemouth to be closer to Europe where the bulk of their work now is.

Hopefully it won't happen but it sounds pretty nailed on and I don't suppose it's something the airport can be blamed for.

[highwideandugly]

Matter of Time ?

As expected(probably)and forecast(see previous posts)KLM reducing,Cobhams partial pull out and more high level talks in progress.Watch those Falcons.....

Reckon KLM pull out at weekends will bring forward an early closing time..maybe 5 ish??

Sorry to say its all been foretold in previous emails and the figures for March will show no hope.

I honestly would like to say something positive but fact is..there is nothing.

[Parsnip]

I hear the farmer on the Southside has been given the land back that was to become the access road, the gas pipeline finished that access route off.
IF that is true then someone should be flagging it up with James Wharton because a LOT of taxpayers money was spent on that bit of land some years ago

[DTVAirport]

Good to hear of a new route to Tenerife for Winter.

[paarmo]

It's a start and once again our German friends have stood by the airport despite having sand repeatedly kicked in their face over the years. I think that this kicks Locos into the long grass and look forward to further news for Summer 2013 and beyond not only with TUI but also with Thomas Cook. A slow start but watch this space.

[highwideandugly]

New routes

Mr Nears said: “We want to make [this airport] a success, and we stand by the deals we have done with operators.

“We cannot control the operators, but if we have done a deal with an operator, then we will stick with that deal.”

This doesnt sound definitive to me...still covering their backs me thinks,and ready to blame the operators if/or when they go?

anyway its great news of a tenerife back on the radar(pun) its up to the locals to support so get booking and maybe next year it will be back?

This will be the worst year in recent memory for passengers lets hope the only way is up from 2013.
The loss of ancillary services Cobhams/FRL etc could still put a spanner in the works as is a massive contributor to costs? lets hope peel have the will (and deep pockets) and can cover this

[N707ZS]

This will be a second flight to Tenerife.

Parsnip, that's what the farmer said.

[mmegh]

Didn't say who's doing the TFS route! If it's Thomson as far as I knew they were still planning on putting the TFS in next winter anyway, so is it really a 2nd route or Peel doing the usual bull***t?

[NorthSouth]

“We cannot control the operators, but if we have done a deal with an operator, then we will stick with that deal.”

I suspect BMIbaby might take issue with that statement.
NS

[SWBKCB]

Thought the issue was Baby didn't stick with the deal they had with DTVA, and not vice versa?

[highwideandugly]

March figures

just published..down around the usual average of 17% !! on last year.

Amsterdam down 1000 passengers Aberdeen up.

any news on the 2nd tenerife flight yet? who is operating it ??

Peel must be pleased..more money down the drain!

[Northbound A1]

Losses or just a tax dodge?

Any losses are probably just offset by the Peel accountants against the rest of the Empire's profits. Called clever accounting.

I did hear they were canvasing for buisness rate relief to try and squeeze more money out of the governemnt now the One North East agency has gone.

Does anybody have the actual ammounts which Peel were given by the disbanded gov agency?. ie for the new expensive fences surrounding their free south side land, and access roads into the terminal etc?

Was it given to Peels other building departments to build the roads without going to an outside tender?

Could be the start of another enquiry if it all comes out.

[SWBKCB]

Authorities not yet acted on your evidence then, A1?