Teesside-2

[P330]

Originally Posted by highwideandugly

Other threads reporting £100m expansion’s announced for Leeds and Belfast airports.

Maybe confidence now returning to the aviation sector.If so, all airports will continue to expand..both movements and passenger figures?

SWBKCB…is right…in that the NE economy is the major player here.
There was only one way Teesside could go with the investment it’s had..and that was up !

See what next years holiday flights bring…

You're right. In terms of passenger traffic, it seems to all rest on imminent announcements (if they come). Next year we will have one weekly Bourgas (downside) but we will have an extra Alicante in Jan - March (upside) so on balance, if everything else remains equal, we should be slightly up in 2024 year on year. But unless TUI or Ryanair announce anything new (or anyone else for that matter), 2024 looks probably fairly flat. Ryanair still loading, so hopefully something new lands and Faro comes back on line. Probably too late for TUI to announce anything now?

For non-holiday holiday flights, I think most routes have started and stopped in the last few years so unlikely to come back.

[N707ZS]

We might see more after Christmas as there is a mayoral election in May.

[Diff Tail Shim]

Originally Posted by Cautious Optimist

It would be impossible for us not to be above pre-Covid levels. Would we still be above pre-Covid levels if all the routes we have now had existed in 2019??

I think a more accurate way to view Newcastles fortunes is to note they have rarely topped the pre-2008 recession let alone Covid.

Given a large portion of their trade comes from our area, we should be preventing them from ever topping it as our business builds back up over the long term, without ever really hurting them.

NCL Is a major airport. MME is a back water in the middle of nowhere. Only Ben Houchien raping the UK tax payer has remotely made MME look presentable. I have an airside pass for both, do you?

[Gsm1]

Nice to see Teesside taking Leeds flights on Saturday 👍🏻

[jorvik]

Can understand Jet2’s refusal to sent anything to MME, last time they had 2 aircraft in for pre delivery checks they where in every social media post like they where setting up a base, no airline wants that, especially not when it’s for a blatant PR boost.

[HH6702]

Originally Posted by Harold77

Why NO movements. They contribute to each airport finances all around the world. If you want to ditch a revenue stream then more fool you. So if you rule Movements out you rule out a performance measure.

Newcastle
Year Passenger Numbers
2018 5,332,238
2019 5,198,952
2020 1,061,146
2021 1,022,540
2022 4,127,035

Jan-August 2019 3,578,378
Jan-August 2023 3,239,027

So Newcastle is in its 4th year of being below pre covid levels. Whereas Teesside is two years on the trot above pre covid levels and growing.

not really hard to do when you actually look at what MME pax were before covid.
come back again in 10 years to compare!

[Flying Hi]

Originally Posted by Gsm1

Nice to see Teesside taking Leeds flights on Saturday 👍🏻

Did they or didnt they?
See post 2425

[SWBKCB]

Yes - two Ryanair

[Flying Hi]

Can see why Jet2 would use MAN to MME as Alternate. MAN has full Jet2 infrastructure in place to cope with such an event.

[P330]

MME and Ben making the most out of this morning’s extra flights. They both make reference to finally getting a direct flight to Malaga and asking Ryanair to make it permanent. Ben adds…”let’s talk”.

Social media fun or evidence that the new route to Malaga is not a done deal?

[SWBKCB]

How long to the next election?

[highwideandugly]

Bens PR and Facebook followers..borders sometimes on cult status?

However..slowly but surely it chips away🤔🤔🤔

Cost to local tax payers..for some reason doesn’t seem to matter in this vanity project?

[N707ZS]

Originally Posted by P330

MME and Ben making the most out of this morning’s extra flights. They both make reference to finally getting a direct flight to Malaga and asking Ryanair to make it permanent. Ben adds…”let’s talk”.

Social media fun or evidence that the new route to Malaga is not a done deal?

He needs the boot if its not on the list of new routes starting soon.

They are making a big thing about Dalaman starting but keeping quiet that they have scrapped the popular Antalya.

[P330]

KLM

Unless it’s a glitch in the app, it looks like our KLM flights change numbering from next summer to KL962, 964 and 966 outbound.

This would run on from the usual Newcastle sequence of KL952 etc….

[oldart]

With reference to Willis Asset Management, does anyone have info on whether their new hangers are going ahead. It all seems to have gone quiet.

[N707ZS]

Does anyone fancy two large hangars.
The 27,000sq ft building that will make a huge difference to North East airport (msn.com)

[P330]

Ryanair now on sale for the full summer, including April and May.

Still no Faro. Or new routes.

[tigertanaka]

You can’t book Newcastle or Leeds to Faro either so let’s not panic yet. Ryanair are notoriously hard bargainers so presumably they are holding out for something?

[Harold77]

Ryanair comprehensive Summer programme isn't usually fully completed until early December. But is known to add the odd route or two as the months roll on.

[Flying Hi]

Originally Posted by P330

Ryanair now on sale for the full summer, including April and May.

Still no Faro. Or new routes.

How did the Faro loadfactors stack up for this year?