Teesside Airport - more route cuts

Surely the Aberdeen route remains at least. That is perfect for those working offshore out of Aberdeen and must make Loganair money.
 
He's lucky that he has a very complicit local media in trems of covering up this type of thing.

There's only so many times that he can keep on saying that they're going to see a 500-600% increase in passengers in 3 years.
 
Centralscrutinizer said:
That flight is now more or less the only one I'd think of for teesside now. Work travel wise Newcastle has become my home airport.
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Newcastle is becoming that way for me too. I've travelling for work again now and Newcastle is better for me returning home, although I used Teesside this time.
 
Loop said:
The flight to Aberdeen would be used more often if it wasn't an absolute fortune.
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Given that many people travelling to Aberdeen are contractors and are paying their own travel... yes.

I worked in Aberdeen for 2 and half years. Flew home twice. Once because I had a baby due and had to get home quickly, once because I to work back and didn't fancy travelling on the late train.

It was £220 each way flying from teesside vs £120 return on the train. For the sake of saving 3 hours.

It was cheaper for me to knock off 4 hours earlier and get the train.
 
Houtchen is just throwing mud at a wall. Some of it will stick (SAaH) and he gets the plaudits. But most of it won't (Ineos land rovers, airport, Rolls Royce). But he will have spaffed hundreds of millions of tax payers money up the wall and into his cronies pockets before he disappears. It's the tory MO. Surely we all know that by now?
 
Just did the Lapland day trip yesterday… going out was ok except the bar/cafe stopped food early so the chef could ‘catch up’ and we suffered a 45 min wait as the plane needed to refuel despite being parked up all night.


Coming back was a shambles… Border Farce were checking every single passport thoroughly like they were looking for the next leader of the Taliban.

Bearing in mind it was a late flight back from a very early start with young kids it was a disgrace and took us over an hour to get through.

Kids were crying and throwing up all over the place.

The best bit was our group of 4 were near the back so we’re one of the last through. Don’t know if the guy was trying to be funny or was just an **** but as I handed our 4 passports over he asked if we were travelling as a family…

I sarcastically said ‘no, I’m travelling with three random people who happen to have the same surname and two of which are children.’

He didn’t see the funny side of it
 
The airport is and remains the flagship 'success' of Houchen, the fact that it's now a massive burden on the taxpayer is somehow overlooked by all the 'well done Benners' on social media, at a time when 1000's can't heat their homes or feed themselves we're diverting money to an airport so that an ever lessening band of fortunate people can save themselves 45 minutes on a flight.

If ever an indication of how out of touch Houchen is and how his priorities are misaligned with reality then this is it.

Obviously an airport would be a nice to have but it's like having a Ferrari and no money to put fuel in it.
 
American_Mary said:
The airport is and remains the flagship 'success' of Houchen, the fact that it's now a massive burden on the taxpayer is somehow overlooked by all the 'well done Benners' on social media, at a time when 1000's can't heat their homes or feed themselves we're diverting money to an airport so that an ever lessening band of fortunate people can save themselves 45 minutes on a flight.

If ever an indication of how out of touch Houchen is and how his priorities are misaligned with reality then this is it.

Obviously an airport would be a nice to have but it's like having a Ferrari and no money to put fuel in it.
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Whilst you're not wrong, there did seem to be a time when the people of Teesside were very keen for the airport to get back up and running. It's tried and failed (probably) but he'd have won no friends for not trying either.
 
atypical_boro said:
Whilst you're not wrong, there did seem to be a time when the people of Teesside were very keen for the airport to get back up and running. It's tried and failed (probably) but he'd have won no friends for not trying either.
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This is an interesting point - why wasn't this brought up earlier. Is it really external factors (Covid) which have led to it's current predicament or was the business case never watertight?

Even pre-Covid it seemed shaky that the region could support two airports (Newcastle being the other).

Same issue plagued the Doncaster airport - it's not ideal that it's gone - but in 8 years of living in South Yorkshire I've used it exactly 0 times, whereas I fly out of Manchester approx 10-12 times a year.
 
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