Teesside-2

[Cautious Optimist]

Very likely, Easyjet and even BA have wasted no time doing so at NCL, with capacity at other airports increased greatly as well, but fares have also gone through the roof

[N707ZS]

World duty free is going to open at the airport another example of keeping things local. The main owner of the company owns a local shooting moor and have flown into the airport for many years.

[tigertanaka]

I can't think of any domestic airport that has a locally run duty free shop (maybe IOM but I am not 100% sure). World Duty Free is by far the leading operator in the UK (of the decent sized airports here, only LCY, BFS and LTN do not have a World Duty Free presence).

I thought World Duty Free was owned by DuFry which is a listed company in Switzerland but happy to be corrected.

[N707ZS]

I have miss read my google search, the guy I was thinking about owns a company called DFS. Amazed they didn't ask him.

[tigertanaka]

Loganair have been tinkering with the timetable:

• The evening Heathrow flight now leaves Teesside an hour later at 18:45.
• Belfast appears to have moved from a mid afternoon weekday departure to a mid morning. There is now a 4:30 hour gap between it returning to Teesside and then leaving for Aberdeen.
• A bit of tinkering with the Jersey & Newquay flights

The new Heathrow timings are strange as an 20:40 departure from there gets you back into Teesside for 21:55 - pretty late for a day trip to London and there will not be much connecting traffic on the route without a codeshare. So does this mean a 3rd daily LHR rotation could be in the pipeline possibly something like MME 1400-1515 LHR returning LHR 1555-1710 MME? Hard to justify based on the recent numbers we have seen but why move it to a worse slot (although I would argue that this is a brilliant slot if you are connecting in London back to Teesside)?

[Alteagod]

I think the Loganair tinkering is network wide tbh

[N707ZS]

What happened to the Teesside Eastern staff, they all seem to have been moved out and there is no longer a based aircraft.

[Atlantic Explorer]

Most of them were made redundant. Looks like they’ve thrown the towel in at MME.

[s_insania]

The Embraer has been running HUY-MME-ABZ and return with Humberside crew for the past how many months now and will be for the foreseeable.
The original plan was to run them both direct from today but looks like that has been put back.

[s_insania]

Ryanair announced a new route to Faro twice weekly from 3rd July

Wed/Sat
0900/1205 FR3518 FAO-MME
1230/1535 FR3519 MME-FAO

[N707ZS]

Is this in addition to the three other routes?

[SWBKCB]

Yes - it is.

[s_insania]

Atlantic Explorer

Based aircraft returns in September. Booking system shows double daily from the start of the month

[N707ZS]

Presume we should be cautiously optimistic on that one s_insania.

[tigertanaka]

Loganair goes double daily on ABZ on 1 June so let's see if they react earlier than September.

[Atlantic Explorer]

s_insania

September is a long way off. Any plans for then is just wishful thinking at this stage.

[Robert-Ryan]

tigertanaka

The Mayor just announced a third daily rotation to Heathrow "due to demand"! Could your monthly estimations of average load factor be wrong (I don't think for one minute they will be)?

[mmeteesside]

Heathrow announced as going 3x daily this morning. Late afternoon rotation expected to be added although doesn’t appear to be bookable yet, so unsure on start date.

[tigertanaka]

Great news on the 3d daily MME-LHR. Some CAA stats were doing the rounds on twitter yesterday that implied 210 people on the route in April but they are not on the CAA website yet.

Mayor has said "watch this space" when I asked him about the BA codeshare.

[The Flying Stool]

I'm absolutely astounded Heathrow is going 3 times daily. The passenger numbers on some sectors could be fitted in a car!