DURHAM TEES VALLEY AIRPORT - 5

[mmeteesside]

I don't know, I can't see DTV being able to sustain 3 737-800's over a winter season. It might make sense in the summer but I am not sure about winter. Unless they have more profitable routes from Gerona/Alicante in the winter season, meaning DTV might not be unprofitable as such but might only make pennies compared to other routes! Although I can't see that being the truth

[davidjohnson6]

If Ryanair choose MME as a base, it'll be to function as "Newcastle (South)"

[DTVAirport]

We're that desperate who cares what they would choose to call us, as long as its runway 23 their aircraft are landing on as opposed to 25, that's all that would matter.

[paarmo]

No sense of excitement at the airport over the rumours.Either the rumours are just that or the management team are filled with dread at having to deal with the satan of airlines.They couldn't get on with Globespan so I don't know how they will cope with being a base for MOL rather than just having fleeting visits.

[mattfalcus]

The new Ryanair base is Leeds Bradford, announced today.

[Wellington Bomber]

Keep your r/w open in the winter there will be lots of FR diverts from LBA coming in

[hatchetman]

FR in LBA

Agree that LBA is hopeless in the winter and additional traffic will wing it's way to DTVA. FR might see the error of their ways if the winter is bad. Why take on Jet 2 when there is an empty airport 60 miles away that is easier to get to.

[DTVAirport]

The rate at which Ryanair seem to open new bases it might not be long before we get a small operation here as well anyway.

[apaul]

I can only see Ryanair's new LBA base as a further blow. Teesside would not even get winter diversions which would more likely land at Doncaster.

[jh0805]

Even though we get LBA diverts when the weathers bad anyway...


What would be different than it used to be except for some Ryanair jets...

[Leodis]

Sorry guys but it doesn't matter how bad the weather is or how bad the road links are, LBA has been chosen because of it's locality to a massive population catchment area which is leaking millions of passenger each year to the likes of Manchester, Liverpool and East Midands.

[N707ZS]

Are Ryanair just trying to attack the heart of Jet2.

[commit aviation]

I don't think so. Looking at S10 Jet2 appear to have cut frequencies on a number of routes outside of the school holidays. It looks like they have tried to maximise yields and have possibly come unstuck.
If fares are too high, people go to other airports and LBIA will be keen to prevent that (as would any airport!)
I don't think J2 will suffer overly - 14 destinations on 2 aircraft means frequencies will be relatively low, but it might keep them honest. The public should win - better fares and more services. The Leeds catchment area can stand the extra services so in my opinion everyone can win.

[DTVAirport]

Originally Posted by Leodis

Sorry guys but it doesn't matter how bad the weather is or how bad the road links are, LBA has been chosen because of it's locality to a massive population catchment area which is leaking millions of passenger each year to the likes of Manchester, Liverpool and East Midands.

We have a relatively large catchment area and are leaking millions of passengers each year to Newcastle & Leeds-Bradford, as well as Doncaster Sheffield & Manchester to a lesser extent, I can't see how we're much different in that sense.

You know what will happen now though don't you? In a couple of years or so, maybe less, they'll go into Newcastle and we'll be 'sandwiched' again, blowing any chance of us getting a replacement based airline, if there even is a chance in the first place.

[pug]

We have a relatively large catchment area and are leaking millions of passengers each year to Newcastle & Leeds-Bradford

Because LBA and NCL sit withing some rather large and diverse catchment areas, thats why places like MME lose out unfortunately.... DSA suffers due to being wedged in between EMA, MAN and LBA.

Im sure that if millions were leaving Teesside for the other airports that airlines like GSM and BMIBaby would have stayed put at MME. Same can be said with HUY to be honest...

[ConstantFlyer]

Both MME and NCL suffer from the fact that half of their catchment area is the North Sea.

[Skilly]

I am a bit of newcomer to the region and MME is only about 20 mins away from where I live. I see that Ryan Air have gone for a base at LBA, one can assume it's to try and draw passengers who frequent LPL and MAN airports. It would have been nice for me to see a strong commitment at MME by at least one budget airline offering some destinations that the main players leave to the small airlines, an example being Aberdeen or Scandanavia. . Ok I am biased as I travel home to Aberdeen at weekends but there is no way I am paying £155 to sit on an Eastern Airways Ford Escort with propellors. I accept that this route is mainly full of hairy bottomed oil workers paying premium fares (or their companies are paying) and there is no competition on this route. I see very little in the local press that makes me believe that MME will be anything other than a little backwater airport that is lacking a plan for the future.

[DTVAirport]

Ford Escort with propellers - genious!!

[Wellington Bomber]

Skilly

You wont pay to go to Aberdeen for £155

But you will pay F*** All to go to Scandinavia and then pay £155 for a beer, genius!!

[SWBKCB]

MME by at least one budget airline offering some destinations that the main players leave to the small airlines

I think the main problem with the RYR LBA decision is the lack of options it leaves for MME. Look at the bases around MME:

Easy - at NCL;
Ryanair - at LBA;
Jet2 - at NCL/LBA;
FlyBe - at NCL/LBA

Who else does that leave - bmiBaby, Globespan?