The slots applied for are using current SOU flight numbers (772x are MME-SOU route)... the mayor told me yesterday that SOU wasn’t resuming on 6 July despite being bookable on the Eastern site. LCY & NQY will.

So let me get this straight - they are planning to launch MME-LHR with no advance sales at three weeks notice with public money backing the losses and a big seat sale too?

And why not, maybe they got there hands on old BE LHR slots somewhere and with covid going on who knows who is doing what from where with whatever

Not launching on the 6th. Mayor has confirmed.

Question is where would the slots come from. They are protected for the summer season but BA will have to lease some out if they don’t want to lose them. Domestic operators such as Eastern or Loganair are not really a threat and could give BA some feed.

So they’re planning to launch a MME to LCY and LHR?! It’s not April the 1st is it?

If I’d said this time last year that Teesside would account for a high % of all new routes in the UK and Eastern were getting slots for a 3x daily service to Heathrow from anywhere you’d have had me locked up for my own protection

Great, booked flights SOU-MME-SOU for July for a business meet in North Yorkshire, fares only £49 each way, whereas LBA is £100+ o/w
Go to hire a car at MME airport and all rental locations are closed by 18.30 when Eastern Airlines flights arrive - You really cannot make this up...... Huge fail again.

Maybe should have checked first given the level of traffic? Anyway, a read up the thread might be useful. Tickets for SOU maybe on sale but there has been no mention in any of the recent promotional activity from the airport (and the Mayor)

I've canx'd all the flights now got my money back -
I now gather the actual SOU-MME service may not now operate anyway, so I would likely have been re protected on the Leeds or NCL services.

Anyway I think I back now again to using the car....

No smoke without fire? :suspect:

ANNA Aero - Teesside joins BLL and SNN as Ryanair webinar sponsor;

Very interesting developments!

Do we know if SOU is off for good, or just not restarting yet?

Has the mayor said anything about Heathrow; can’t seem to find anything other than the spotter source? If this turns out to be true; I will have to eat a lot of humble pie! 😋

If you look on Easterns website southampton (like Cardiff) shows as going through Teesside - which it wasn’t before and wasn’t when I flew on this route just before lockdown, note sure if that’s a sign of what is happening?

T4dan - would it be possible to rephrase what you were saying about Southampton/Cardiff going through Teesside ? I'm not 100% clear as to what exactly you mean....

I'm assuming he means Aberdeen as that is how CWLs Aberdeen operated. It stopped at Teesside. Well it did its no longer onsale as far as I can see.

An Aberdeen tag on you mean?

I was under the impression that ABZ-SOU was via NCL, not MME. Wherever it stopped, it's definitely off sale now, at least for the dates I looked at in July and August. NCL-SOU and MME-SOU are still bookable though. All very confusing.

According to Newcastle thread, it seems Eastern have pulled out the ABZ route. So would seem logical to route SOU-ABZ via MME instead of NCL.

Yes NCL-ABZ has been dropped before starting. SOU-ABZ will now be formed of linking SOU-MME and MME-ABZ together, from end of August when the full schedule kicks in.
This is all assuming the SOU-MME route survives the current LHR swap carry on.
Interestingly SOU-NCL & rtn is currently running with a ~4 hour sit at NCL (presumably where the ABZ leg would have been?), could be reinstated if SOU-MME is dropped?

AMS to restart on August 3rd with a single daily flight at first - also signed a 5 year extension on the route

On Teesside International website (can't post URL yet)

New 5 year deal agreed with KLM. www.teessideinternational.com/teesside-airport-agrees-five-year-deal-with-klm-as-date-to-resume-amsterdam-flights-revealed/

Also, Amsterdam flights resume on 3rd August.

Beat me to it something_diferent but I will leave the link in here