Working in the bus industry what we could do with £6m in Teesside...! Only have to look at the amount of people using the train to Manchester Airport as a percentage of overall users to see Teesside’s station is never going to be heavily used

It`s a little more than 1mile from the oak Tree to the railway station in Middleton st George with a frequent bus service which is about every 30mins

Eastern
 

For all those people with the constructive (negative) feedback for Eastern, I think it is worth a mention that they operated all their flights this week on time and on a J41!

Station improvements include removing the bridge and the far platform, don't know how that would improve matters only allowing trains in one direction. Might as well just close the station and remove it, then use the land for aviation.

Don`t see how that's going to cost 6m

Whilst we await all the new routes being put on sale, here are the....

December CAA stats:

Terminal passengers: 11,273 - up 2% v prior year

• Aberdeen: 1,109 - down 2%
• Amsterdam: 9,188 - up 7%
• Enontekio: 377 - up 1%

AMS back into growth territory and it is the best December on the route since 2005! ABZ down slightly - hopefully we have reached the low point on this route and it is uphill now. Good figures for the Santa charter to Finland (although there was a second one in 2018 to Pajala Yllas in Sweden which didn't appear this year).

Full year 2019 passengers: 147,824 - up 6% v 2018 and the best year since 2013 (159,311 pax then)

• Aberdeen: 18,036 - down 21% & the worst year since at least 1999
• Amsterdam: 118,907 - up 7% & the best year since 2007
• All other routes: 10,881 - up 87% & the best year since 2013

Routes still not on sale with no announcement of when that will happen. Mention of Flybe involvement is very limited - it wasn’t mentioned once at the press conference. It is all very odd.

But given the publicity around Flybe at the moment, not very surprising?

Weren’t some of the routes to start in Feb? Surely they must be on sale soon?

Cardiff is 10 February, then BHD, DUB, SOU on 9 March

London City – Monday 27 April

Isle of Man – Saturday 30 May

A advert on the Eastern Airways website say MME flights to BHD, DUB, IOM, LCY and SOU go on sale 7th Feb,

https://www.easternairways.com

Be interesting to see what prices they will be charging.......

£700k to make the station safe by removing the platform and footbridge.

Where's the logic in trains in one direction only, unless the whole line is going to Single Line Working.
And which platform is going? The Departures or the Arrivals , so to speak.

So is it correct that CWL starts 10 Feb but only goes on sale from 7th Feb. Not much time to sell seats for the big launch.

Pretty sure its already onsale.

Cardiff flights from Durham Tees Valley for sale now on the Flybe website....

Might be better to move it down the track near to the entrance to the south side development

Looks like Balkan have doubled Bourgas for the summer