More bad news for MME (Durham Tees Valley Airport)

Thomsonfly are facing the same problem as all the other package tour operators. The bog-standard package holiday market is shrinking. People are either booking themselves on the internet, and searching for their flights, or are looking for something more from their holiday than they currently get and are venturing further afield.
The effect will vary from airport to airport. You need package tour holiday makers to fill most of the plane, if they are not there you pull the flight. It is nonsense to suggest that because one airport is losing out so should another in an adjacent geographical area. Depends on the availability of other flights, holidays etc.
There are going to be casualties. Lets hope they are few in size and number.

To be honest if Thomsonfly drop LBA they SHOULD drop MME.

And on what business knowledge do you base this latest remark on? Thank goodness, you’re not running our airlines Tommy (or anything else for that matter).

To be honest if Thomsonfly drop LBA they SHOULD drop MME.

My info about it leaving was from TOM crew at the NCL base (where all the MME crew are supposedly heading). We shall wait and see who’s right (hopefully DTV!)

Scott

Have yet to see anything to prove the Thomsonfly story yet.

In fact, I have received information from DTV on the very subject which clearly says that the Thomsonfly aircraft will be back next year. At the moment, I’m inclined to believe the base is staying.

Not at the moment, at least, they’ve just added a 4th daily rotation for MME, although it is only a temporary thing, a slot protector at LHR no doubt!

Scott

Christ can it get any worse for them.

Yup, rumoured that the BMI LHR service to be dropped. 🙁

Christ can it get any worse for them.

Sad if true, though I’ve seen no official indication of this yet.

Good news on Wizz Air, though hardly compensation:-

This year’s good news:-
Eastern – Brussells (2 x daily) (w)
Ryanair – Gerona (3 x weekly)
Flyglobsepan – Palma, Alicante, Faro, Malaga (1 base doing 2 x daily runs)
Wizz Air – Warsaw (3 x weekly)

This year’s bad news
Bmi Baby – Withdrawl of 2 aircraft flying to Palma, Alicante, Malaga, Paris, Gatwick, Jersey, Cork, Knock, Newquay
Eastern – Withdrawl of Bristol
Ryanair – Withdrawl of Rome
Ryanair – Reduction in Dublin
Thomsonfly – Removal of base?
KLM – Proposed 4 x daily didn’t materialise.

Despite the good news, this has been a bad year for MME – no question about it. 😡

To be fair MME needs some expansion work before it can sustain commited tour operators. When i travelled in 2004 to Tenerife with Spanair it was far too small and the terminal was overcrowded with 2 Tenerife flights going out that evening.

Wizz Start to Warsaw – 3x weekly

On the good side however,
Wizz have announced they are starting to Warsaw from DurhamTees from July 07, 3x weekly with Airbus A320 equipment 😀
http://www.durhamteesvalleyairport.com/page.php?p=3&media_id=28&month=Oct

Plus for the winter Eastern have given us our own sunday rotation, instead of sharing it with Humberside 🙂 Will operate to the normal T3587/588 times!

That’s sad news but on the plus side Flyglobespan will pick up Palma, Malaga and Alicante routes which BMiBaby are dropping and Eastern are starting direct flights from MME to Brussels. Many bigger airports such as Glasgow would envy a direct service to Brussels.