Teesside Airport Prepares for Busy Year

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The first phase of Peel Airports investment programme at Teesside International Airport is now complete. The Airport announced in January this year that work was to begin on the transformation of Teesside into a modern efficient airport facility and since then there have been significant changes to the infrastructure and terminal road amongst others that are currently in the planning stage.

Internal improvements include the relocation of the café/bar in the departure lounge and refurbishment of both the departure and the arrivals corridor areas. Externally the new road in-front of the terminal building will allow passengers easier access to the terminal and will provide wider and safer drop off zones.

These developments are only the first stage of a £20million investment programme over the next five years which will see improvements to all in areas of the Airport; and will be followed by the completion of an extension to the car park facilities by mid April and the completion of the new access road to the Airport by late summer of this year.

Kerry Quinn, Head of Airport Services said “This first phase of the £20million developments has been completed on target and in time for the summer season. Passengers travelling over the busy Easter period will enjoy enhanced facilities and an enlarged departure lounge.”

bmibaby, the award winning airline with tiny fares are operating flights to Belfast and Prague over the Easter weekend with holiday flights operating to Majorca, Alicante and the Canary Islands whilst scheduled services to Aberdeen, Heathrow, Amsterdam and Dublin will also operate. A day trip to Iceland will also operate with Transun and Newmarket Holidays are taking passengers away for eight days to the wonderful island of Sardinia.

The Airport is expected to see passenger numbers using services during this year approach the 1million mark.