Another blow for DTV

[pug]

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/4096380.Airline_confirms_final_departure_from_airport/

Just goes to show what can happen at regional airports if they put all of their eggs in one basket... At least they will still have FR, BMI and KLM but what about charters? Surely HUY will have more next year than at Durham?

[Humberside]

HUY will almost certainly have more charters than MME. FR and bmi will probably keep MME's passenger figures above ours

[pug]

I think they will, but only just. I think they could drop down to below 500,000 this year. I think BLK will drop to below HUY. It will be like what it was in the 90's again, MME and HUY similar in numbers and BLK and NWI dropping down.

[Humberside]

Cant see BLK dropping below us coinsidering Jet 2's summer operations with two based aircraft

[pug]

When did they recieve their second aircraft? Im pretty sure that this last year just under 500,000 were handled there. Dont forget FR will have had around 100,000 of those at least. LS seem to be able to spread out their timetable there as there are not so many movements per day.

[Humberside]

Theres been two aircraft there in summer for a while now. I've just looked athe CAA stats and BLK only had 15000 more passengers than us last year, which surprised me. So maybe we will overtake them, but then we will also see some severe charter cuts this summer

[pug]

I dont understand how their operations can justify two a/c with no city destinations on offer there. Just shows what HUY could have been like now, though with whats happened at DTV would it be a good idea? Suppose theres not alot left to lose with the traditional med routes now and i would hope its something MAG are looking seriously at for next year to fill in the gaps with Ibiza, Faro, Alicante, Malaga, Palma, Lanzarote and Menorca plus others all gone or severly cut....

[pug]

Yet more, the long served LHR service is to be canned..

[richardtaylor]

Now THAT'S bad, losing a link that's been in place since - what? - late 60s? What next for DTV? Are the Management trying to run it down?

[Humberside]

MME is getting more and more like HUY - just swap most of our charters for FR at MME. A big blow for MME, especially in the winter

[pug]

MME is getting more and more like HUY - just swap most of our charters for FR at MME. A big blow for MME, especially in the winter

I would say worse. I bet HUY will still offer more destinations and therefore choice to its customers than MME will next summer as things stand.

More evidence that airports of this stature cannot rely upon one 'charter summer airline'.

[pug]

Senior Tory questions airport’s future
8:32am Tuesday 10th March 2009

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A SENIOR North-East Conservative has questioned whether the region can support two major airports.

Lord Michael Bates of Langbaurgh appears on the latest edition of The Northern Echo’s internet TV programme, Northern Decisionmakers, speaking about the future of Durham Tees Airport once bmi halts its daily flights to Heathrow at the end of the month.




Lord Bates, the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, said: “We need to look at the fact that the North-East is the smallest of England’s regions, and at the proximity of Durham Tees Valley and Newcastle airports.

“I know there is interregional rivalry.

“The major airport in the North-West is Manchester.

The major airport in Yorkshire is Leeds Bradford, and I just wonder whether we are large enough as a region to sustain two world-class airports.”

Ten years ago, development agency One North East sparked controversy when it suggested that Newcastle should become the region’s passenger hub, with the then Teesside Airport being downgraded to handle freight. Such was the dismay in the south of the region that the agency quickly performed a U-turn.

On the programme, Lord Bates also talks about how the region will recover from the recession.

The other guest on the programme is George Rafferty, the chief executive of Durham-based NOF Energy.

He explains how nearly 70 per cent of his members are cautiously optimistic” despite the recession and why nuclear energy’s time is coming.

Source; Northern Echo

[Humberside]

I dont think such comments are wise. Firstly because there are people who earn a living at MME. And secondly it would hardly help the Teeside/Darlington economy. Having to travel to NCL or LBA is hardly going to attract investment to the area

Plus of course now is hardly the time to be judging an airport. Do it when the economy picks up as traffic may well pick up at MME then too

[pug]

Yet more bad news/rumours. A post on Pprune says the DUB is to be pulled in the coming months due to 'duty tax at Dublin'...

[richardtaylor]

Been confirmed MME-DUB is being canned. Others routes being canned or reduced from DUB.

RYR seem to be alienating a lot of airports & organisations. One of these days they will find NO-ONE willing to take them on. Where will they park their 738s then?

Nevertheless, more bad news for DTV. Is it a realistic proposition that the airport could disappear under an industrial or housing estate?

What are the Management doing??