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With a press launch of the re-naming ceremony to "Teesside International Airport", you would think a simultaneous launch of updating the website (still "Durham Tees Valley") would have been coordinated in a professional relaunch.
Durham Tees Valley Airport
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Surprised no-one has picked up on this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49338849
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49338849
140,000 pax a year is approximately 70,000 outbound (ie the ones who pay the passenger fee).
70,000 x £5 each (£6 less the VAT that goes to central government) equals £350k a year, not £900k.
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Whilst the 350k argument seems logical, I feel like what must be an entire team of accountants at the Mayors office isn't going to get it wrong? Either way the black hole argument stands
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Passengers face £6 airport charge at Durham Tees Valley - The Journal
226k pax in 2010 so 113k outbound pax paying £5 each (£6 ex VAT) is £565k...
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Not sure what you're getting at given it's the same level as we've had for many years now on a Sunday, unless you expected the Mayor to perform an overnight miracle despite his continued assertion that it will be a long term (i.e. years) fix.
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June CAA stats:
Terminal passengers: 15,027 - up 16% v prior year
Rolling 12 month passengers: 142,945 - best since 2013.
Terminal passengers: 15,027 - up 16% v prior year
- Aberdeen: 1,568 - down 20%
- Amsterdam: 11,026 - up 12%
- Jersey: 740 - up 2%
- Burgas: 1,716 (new)
Rolling 12 month passengers: 142,945 - best since 2013.
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The Embraer change in late October 2017 put a lot of extra capacity on the AMS route. A Fokker 70 had 70 seats but there was a "middle seat vacant" policy which meant that KLM would normally only sell around 64 seats (this varied but 3 rows of business would be typical). An E175 has 88 seats which means over 25% more capacity than before.
To put recent traffic into context, June 2019 (E175) was 34% up on June 2017 (F70). Also 10,988 pax in June (and assuming 3 daily weekday, 2 daily weekends) is an average of 69 pax per flight so we are a bit away from getting a 4th daily flight or a move up to an E190..
The E190s have been appearing recently on the night stopping aircraft. Cannot see a 4th due to the Amsterdam restrictions. Now the local councillor is on side with the mayor they could do with re-starting the KLM cargo plan of the 80s.
Best I can find. The local councillor had her way this time.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7077539.airport-scheme-brought-down/
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7077539.airport-scheme-brought-down/