Durham Tees Valley Job Cuts/Reduced Opening Hours

[Humberside]

Also a 'twin' terminal concept

www.durhamteesvalleyairport.com/press-releases/airport-reveals-new-look-as-it-modernises-for-the-future.html

[elmfield]

However they try to put a "spin" on things its a cost cutting exercise. I was half expecting to read of them setting up a second-hand car lot a la Sheffield!

[pug]

A poster seems to sum it up very well indeed...

Difficult to say anything about this really, comments that contain anything critical regarding the airport or particularly the management tend to get removed just as soon as our friends at the Gazette catch up with them.
Anyway, I've said it before and will say it again. The place has been going down the pan for years. The owners have absolutely no committment and the management are totally devoid of enthusiasm, imagination and initiative.
Its hard to beleive that there wasn't much between Newcaastle and Teesside at one point and a part of the situation that has developed is down to equally poor Parliamentary representation - if anyone out there is listening, Bell, Kumar, Taylor et al a little Government funding wouldn't come amiss, Newcastle are getting £300M towards tarting up the Tyne and Wear Metro - since it was built largely on the back of Government "help", shouldn't it be paying its own way now?
I've used both Newcastle and Teesside airports regularly for the last 30 years , Teesside more frequently because it is my local airport, and I will be totally gutted to see it go, and lets be grown up about it, that's whats happening.
"Splitting" the airport for the business user and holiday maker is totally unnecessary and an attempt to paper over the redundancies.
Take a look at other airports and how they operate, look at their websites and the arrivals and departures info' that is available and look at how they are able to provide useful telephone numbers that are actually manned and helpful, and you will get an idea, Kerry dear, of how it is supposed to be done. Unfortunately, you just don't have a scooby!!
As for security, those guys should do a shift at Schipol for a reality check - efficiency and courtesy in equal measure rather than, on occassion, downright rudeness and ignorance.

www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2010/01/14/jobs-under-threat-in-durham-tees-valley-airport-revamp-84229-25600214/2/#sitelife-comments-bottom

I would add that it is nothing more than mothballing part of the terminal to cut overheads, as was rumoured for DSA!

Blind optimists would call this innovation, realisticaly it seems more to be a lack of committment... What other UK airports do this?

[elmfield]

I believe that Peel were of the opinion that lo-co was the answer to all the problems. This came out of the experience they gained with Liverpool, where easyJet found a solid base. We should always remind ourselves that Peel had no aviation related experience until they acquired Liverpool. Since then they bought the lion's share of Teeside, they obtained Sheffield ... to close... and then buy 120 acres of prime development land for £1.oo as well as acquiring Finningley. All of these sites have development land available and Peel are, firstly, property developers.

On their balance sheets I believe they will still be in profit with what they have obtained from the sale of interests in their property developments.