RE: Why isn’t Teesside bigger than it is?
The choice of airport by low cost operators has little to do with location. They’re famous for flying to fields a hundred miles from anywhere.
One of the major factors is the airport costs – or more tellingly, the amount of money an airport is prepared to pay to attract low cost carriers. This can be through low landing/parking fees, or through “marketing support”.
Teesside is in a reasonable enough location. It’s only a short drive for most of Teeside and is kind of local for North Yorkshire too – towns like Great Ayton or even the Whitby area.
The low level of activity there probably has a lot to do with my second paragraph – financial incentives.
By the way – I used to fly from Teesside to LHR a lot, when I was a kid. My Dad always used to tell me that the nearby hotel was haunted. Any comment? Flights were BM, usually Viscounts or DC-9’s if we were lucky!
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