Teesside-2

[N707ZS]

Well now thats over someone seriously needs to start looking for some winter charters and expansion next year.

And if they build the industrial units on the South side that removes the display area by my calculations.

[highwideandugly]

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous post..so what good actually did come out of it(the air show)?

As a PR exercise for the airport it remains an ongoing disaster.

Blinkers are optional guys…

[10 DME ARC]

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...alk-along-a67/

Don't look to have only effected airshow participants..........

[Cautious Optimist]

Originally Posted by highwideandugly

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous post

And I refer you to mine

CO (blinkers off and never on in the first place)

[Beafer]

The investigation into the parking fiasco.

More on the airshow parking fiasco. They only had 5,600 spaces available, with an extra 1,900 as a contingency! I think there were 29,000 tickets sold. Maybe the people running the show thought people would hop on a train?

Details of how much the Mayor paid out to hold the car parking show, and who was involved in the supposed planning.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/t...-made-24214739

[N707ZS]

The main point.

The Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) contributed £100,000 towards the airshow - with £20,000 put towards the event initially cancelled due to the pandemic in 2020, and £80,000 granted from its culture and tourism budget. Officials also said the organisers paid £50,000 to hold the event at publicly-owned Teesside Airport.

[N707ZS]

Airport seems to have gone back to not using a tug for some flights.

[highwideandugly]

Was that Ryanair flights? Keeping their costs down if so?

[Cat Techie]

Originally Posted by highwideandugly

Was that Ryanair flights? Keeping their costs down if so?

Yeph. Why push back when you have loads of apron to use and no one else is.

[SWBKCB]

Originally Posted by Cat Techie

Yeph. Why push back when you have loads of apron to use and no one else is.

Is this from the new handling company?

[AirportPlanner1]

Originally Posted by N707ZS

The main point.

Private Eye have covered the airshow. Little surprise, Skylive were newly incorporated in 2019 but donated to Houchen. It’s director is also MD of the company that was awarded the airport’s IT contract. Standard modus operandi for this bunch.

[highwideandugly]

Oh dear..not good reading methinks!

[toon22]

Don’t you just love Private Eye!! And to think that the mayor had only the interests of his aviation-loving constituents in mind.Why do I have the feeling this won’t be the last revelation?

[P330]

Originally Posted by P330

Yes, twice a day starting from 23 May; once a day on weekends.

Also looks like the weekday morning rotation will be on the bigger E190 during July and August.

Latest date for 3 x daily is first week in September.

KLM 3 daily delayed again from early September until w/c 31st October.

I won’t question the logic but this perennial changing of the schedules must be hurting bookings. Lots of business people on the 6am
now using Newcastle. I have a KLM booked in a few weeks and chose Newcastle because I wasn’t confident in the MME schedule. Looks like the right move as I would have been bumped onto another rotation or rebooked to NCL. Until there is a stable schedule (that is what they offer for sale actually operates), I’ll be using Newcastle and that’s such a shame.

[N707ZS]

I see even Humberside now has the night stopping KLM aircraft, starting to wonder if aviation isn't the main option at Teesside again.

[SWBKCB]

Doubt whether the airport has much say in KLM's schedule, but given their long standing association with the airports mentioned, they will know their market and where there is money to be made.

[highwideandugly]

Amsterdam a bit of a mess at moment.However last few days has seen the Teesside schedule back down to one again?

As you say not good for planning.Newcastle appears generally still to have the full 4 per day schedule.

Not just here though..a lot of rotations have been cancelled system wide.

[zed3]

I used to be able to book LBA to AMS with KLM for between 130-150 pounds return but two weeks ago was quoted L1200+ probably due to the problems in Amsterdam. They seemingly want to discourage people from flying, Logical and clever really.

[davidjohnson6]

Dutch Govt wants to reduce the annual number of movements at AMS from 500,000 to 440,000
Routes operated by an Embraer are clearly up for serious review. Could MME survive KLM cutting a daily rotation to just a single daily B737 ?

[Buster the Bear]

The expansion of Lelystad Airport was driven by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol reaching its maximum 500,000 allowed aircraft movements.