Durham Tees Valley Airport bosses have revealed they’re pleased with the routes currently operating out of the facility. Airport management say load factors on all routes have shown an increase whilst Thomson have seen growth in advanced bookings for Summer 2013. This is all in response to news that passenger numbers for August fell 15.1% on the previous year. The figures for the rolling year show a 21.3% drop to 164,941.
Chiefs from the airport blame the fall on the collapse last year of Turkish holiday giant “Holidays4U”, as well as the axing of the Southampton service with Eastern Airways (which wasn’t doing too badly at the time of it’s demise – as has been the case with several of DTVA’s ‘lost’ routes, the most significant being the Wizz Air flights to Warsaw).
The airport have stressed their joint marketing campaign with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is working and constant efforts are being made to secure new services, in addition to investments to other areas of the airport as well.
by Chris Smith
20/09/12