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SWBKCB 28th Jul 2019 12:40


Originally Posted by DanAir89 (Post 10530508)

north east - ncl or mme

TUI are the only likely candidates and I'm sure they've served the Dominican Republic (which takes an awful lot more to type than PUJ) previously from NCL - replaced it with Cancun?

Also, remember that the business case based on which us taxpayers are supporting Teesside is to improve the regions connectivity to facilitate exports and inward investment, not to fund cheap holidays for Teessiders.

davidjohnson6 28th Jul 2019 13:05

I imagine network carriers which would provide onward connectivity will not consider MME for new/increased service until they see perhaps 500,000 pax per year through the airport. This would show both substantial operational capacity and a desire for air travel from local residents (who are also the employees of exporters)

If MME wants flights that are *codeshared* with something in the Lufthansa, Norwegian or SAS groups, then maybe 10 short-haul leisure or migrant labour focussed routes need to come first.

Cautious Optimist 28th Jul 2019 13:21


Originally Posted by DanAir89 (Post 10530443)

tee hee, I thought the same! While I wish the airport well in the past both Airtours and Thomson have IIRC taken a based aircraft from NCL to MME but it’s always ended up back at NCL (late 90’s early 00’s) which also says a lot too.

Airtours left because of a company restructure/downsizing and Thomson left because of the MME market becoming overcrowded (bmibaby / Ryanair / FlyGlobespan's first route to TFS), if it was the lack of demand hinted at then the bases would not have lasted anywhere near as long as they did.

highwideandugly 28th Jul 2019 13:32

Sad to see aircraft diverting away from ncl not going to Teesside..in years gone by..it was a perfect diversion airport..obviously the airlines don’t think so now?

Cautious Optimist 28th Jul 2019 13:38

Standard procedure where possible is to go to the nearest engineering base

LiamNCL 28th Jul 2019 14:09

TUI's 787 operates from NCL 4x every 2 weeks with just the 2x on the alternative weeks , Thats a very good unchallenged long haul market they have here. They wont launch PUJ whilst they sell that many holidays to Cancun.

SWBKCB 28th Jul 2019 14:27


Originally Posted by Cautious Optimist (Post 10530578)
Standard procedure where possible is to go to the nearest engineering base

Easyjet went to Leeds?


They wont launch PUJ whilst they sell that many holidays to Cancun.
Didn't Cancun replace PUJ at NCL?


If MME wants flights that are *codeshared* with something in the Lufthansa, Norwegian or SAS groups, then maybe 10 short-haul leisure or migrant labour focussed routes need to come first.
Norwegian? and who would be the code-share operator? Any hub operation would need to take on a heavily entrenched KLM.




N707ZS 28th Jul 2019 15:22

Sounds like, got the old name back but not jet developed the will that used to be there in days of old. Lets hope some can be grown and the fight is brought back.

Cautious Optimist 28th Jul 2019 15:29

SWBKCB engineering is in place at Leeds just not theirs

jensdad 28th Jul 2019 16:35


Originally Posted by Mike Tee (Post 10530288)
SEN, MCO, GLA ? As a casual but genuinely interested reader I guess that the preceding are "abreviations" of destinations and that with my limited knowledge I guess that GLA could be Glasgow, which incidently only took me half a nano second to type out fully against typing GLA. Should I have a list of these abreviations available for quick reference or is there any chance that destinations can have their actual names typed out fully so that us who not so clued up can understand ?.

Well said, that man.

jensdad 28th Jul 2019 16:40


Originally Posted by toon22 (Post 10530377)

MCO. “Split load with Glasgow“ tells you all you need to know about why it no longer operates.

Looking at it from the other end: Glasgow had a split load with Teesside, but still has service to the Dominican Republic!

Mike Tee 29th Jul 2019 07:04


Originally Posted by skyman771 (Post 10530313)
Perhaps you should run yourself a list off internet. It's not difficult !!!

Ok I see, you mean "It's not difficult" in the same sense as typing Glasgow is only a very tiny teeny weeny bit more difficult than typing GLA !!!!.

Doctor Cruces 30th Jul 2019 17:49


Originally Posted by mikkie4 (Post 10528444)
If they do fly to SEN WHO/WHAT airline do you think would / could be used?

Stobart Air? They own Southend and are in partnership running MME.

Doctor Cruces 30th Jul 2019 17:54


Originally Posted by davidjohnson6 (Post 10530507)
Perhaps Teesside to either Alicante in summer or Tenerife in winter might be a more attainable target than the Dominican Republic ?

The patient has been taken away from the source of injury but is still in intensive care. However much we may wish to dream, the patient remains in a fragile state and recovery is a long process

When I worked for British Midland at Tees Side in the mid seventies there were charters (on a schedule basis) to all over the place, Rimini, Teneriffe, Lanzarotte, Palma and a whole lot of the "usual suspects" for the bucket and spade market. As well as schedules to Heathrow, Amsterdam, Manchester, Cardiff, Bristiol, Norwich, Aberdeen and a few others lost to time.

Was kept very busy as a Traffic Officer every day.

Doctor Cruces 30th Jul 2019 17:59


Originally Posted by highwideandugly (Post 10530570)
Sad to see aircraft diverting away from ncl not going to Teesside..in years gone by..it was a perfect diversion airport..obviously the airlines don’t think so now?

Probably not the infrastructure there now to support it as a major diversion for airlines. I remember one winter when Tees Side managed to get a clear-ish runway when our BD062 arrived back from Heathrow, the word went out REALLY quickly and from about1045 to well past midnight we were almost stacking them on top of each other and calling off duty staff in. Probably couldn't cope with that now.

onion 31st Jul 2019 06:52

The lack of diversions is probably down to fire cover, as schedule/charter traffic returns this may mean more diversions from the likes of Easy/Ryan/Jet2 and others.

P330 2nd Aug 2019 07:48

Superbreak
 
Looks like Superbreak have gone under. Were we still getting their ad-hoc charters throughout the year?

Robert-Ryan 2nd Aug 2019 16:27

According to the movements website there would have been another Iceland in February

SWBKCB 2nd Aug 2019 17:26

At least Superbreaks appear to be ATOL/ABTA protected...

Cautious Optimist 14th Aug 2019 02:08

Surprised no-one has picked up on this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49338849


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