Teesside International Airport-1
Eastern Airways is expanding MME to LHR flights, On Heathrow website to 3x daily from 25th October
LHR arrival times:
09:10 Mon-Fri
10:05 Sat
15:20 Mon-Sat
16:00 Sun
17:20 Mon-Fri & Sun
LHR departure times:
09:40 Mon-Fri
11:00 Sat
16:15 Mon-Sat
16:55 Sun
18:10 Mon-Fri & Sun
LHR arrival times:
09:10 Mon-Fri
10:05 Sat
15:20 Mon-Sat
16:00 Sun
17:20 Mon-Fri & Sun
LHR departure times:
09:40 Mon-Fri
11:00 Sat
16:15 Mon-Sat
16:55 Sun
18:10 Mon-Fri & Sun
But Eastern don’t mind as they are being bankrolled by the Teesside (mayor)taxpayers!
Fear , as stated is..Heathrow recovers and slots as always will be at a premium.Hence Eastern depart the scene and KLM discover that TIA doesn’t fit into there business model anymore.
Never mind ,there are flights to Newquay.That will certainly help inward investment and the Middlesbrough football manager!
Fear , as stated is..Heathrow recovers and slots as always will be at a premium.Hence Eastern depart the scene and KLM discover that TIA doesn’t fit into there business model anymore.
Never mind ,there are flights to Newquay.That will certainly help inward investment and the Middlesbrough football manager!
But Eastern don’t mind as they are being bankrolled by the Teesside (mayor)taxpayers!
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Traffic on GLA/EDI to Heathrow is believed to support 50% connecting traffic, the same statistic for Manchester is higher, believed to be as much as 70%. These routes work for BA due to their network and frequency. I'm guessing that given its location, Newcastle or even Teesside would be a market for connecting traffic between 50% and 70%. Virgin couldn't make Manchester Heathrow work even with its sizeable long haul network. I'm not convinced this route will stack up even post covid. Sadly.
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KLM are being hit hard by the quarantine requirement of course, would be interesting to know what their UK wide network looks like these days though.
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Originally Posted by SWBKCB
N-M-B - yes, the airport is all over the local press and social media.
Also, I don't give a monkeys about taxpayers money being used be it local or national - look after no.1!
If Teesside is seen to manage investment effectively and can point clear goals that have been achieved, it will have an easier time asking for more cash from Westminster in the future. It's up to Teesside to decide what those goals are. Waste it all on flying almost empty planes and a bad reputation is gained and it becomes harder to get access to regional support money in the future.
HM Treasury receive far more requests for money than can ever be satisfied - they are not known to be generous to those that like to fritter money away
HM Treasury receive far more requests for money than can ever be satisfied - they are not known to be generous to those that like to fritter money away
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The airport hasn't been allocated any money by Treasury - the expenditure is part of the Tees Valley Combined Authorities 10 year investment plan, devolved to the Mayor and the TVCA.
Yes - but expenditure on the airport is part of £588m ten year investment plan. Clearly there will be controls built in, but there is no stand alone Treasury involvement in the airport investment.
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Answering my own question...
The Mayor himself is also Chairman of the TVCA.
The airport funding appears very much a personal project led by the Mayor & Chairman then of TVCA.
The Mayor himself is also Chairman of the TVCA.
The airport funding appears very much a personal project led by the Mayor & Chairman then of TVCA.
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A triple daily to LHR in the current climate is clearly excessive but we need to remember that in normal times LHR slots go for $30m+ a pair which would be an absolute non-starter for an airline operating MME-LHR. Wait until things recover and the slots potentially wouldn't be available so maybe the long game is the only way to play this one. However who knows if they can secure the same slots for Summer 2020.
Of course we don't have all the detail but one would hope that the airport has some sort of arrangement with Eastern that will stop them flogging off the slots at the first opportunity when the market eventually picks up.
Of course we don't have all the detail but one would hope that the airport has some sort of arrangement with Eastern that will stop them flogging off the slots at the first opportunity when the market eventually picks up.
Further details of the proposals have now emerged, with a site at publicly-owned Teesside Airport now the most likely location. Details of the ambitious campus plans put forward in a bid by Tees Valley Combined Authority include a moat and multi-storey offices to house top level civil servants.