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AN aerospace firm is cutting jobs at a loss-making North-East airport, The Northern Echo can reveal. Cobham, based at Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA), says it is making redundancies as it moves work from the region. Bosses, who employ about 90 people at DTVA, say its flight inspection services are being transferred to Bournemouth Airport. The firm has not confirmed h...

MEMBERS of the public have gathered for a second time to have their say on the future of Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA). The second in a series of public consultation sessions about a masterplan for the airport, which includes plans to build up to 400 houses, took place in the Dolphin Centre, in Darlington. Officials say the money generated by the sale would be used to...

Up to 4,000 jobs are being promised as part of a long-term redevelopment of Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA). The airport, which has seen passenger numbers fall by about 700,000 since 2006, is to fund the £280m scheme, in part by selling off land for homes. Majority owner Peel Airports, wants to focus on business flights to Amsterdam and Aberdeen as well as developing ne...

TWO of the region’s council leaders have given their backing to a new long-term rescue plan for Durham Tees Valley Airport, which could see land sold for up to 400 houses at the site. Six local authorities - Darlington, County Durham, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Redcar and Cleveland – are minority shareholders in DTVA, which is majority owned by the Peel Group. ...

The airport slumped to a £3.6m pre-tax loss in the 12 months to March this year as it suffered a further slump in passenger numbers. The deficit compared with a £6.8m profit in the previous year. Bad weather and slow recovery in the UK economy were blamed for a 12% plunge in passenger numbers from 192,488 to 168,756. At its peak in 2006 the airport, which last month an...

Airport bosses should make a third attempt at securing Whitehall cash towards their regeneration plans, a Teesside MP has claimed. MP for Sedgefield Phil Wilson says the Government needs to play its part in keeping Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA) going, despite two failed bids by its owners for Regional Growth Fund (RGF) cash to pay for road infrastructure. Meanwhile, B...

Following an extensive review of its business, Durham Tees Valley Airport has today announced the first steps toward repositioning itself for the future. Scheduled daily passenger flights to Schiphol (Amsterdam) operated by KLM and flights to Aberdeen operated by Eastern Airlines are not affected and will continue as normal, protecting the region’s connectivity to key global...

Deal means that helicopter which serves Teesside willl remain based at DTVA - and airport will fund a new hangar. The National Police Air Service (NPAS) is to have a new tailor-made hangar at Durham Tees Valley Airport. It means that the airport will remain the base for Teesside's police helicopter for the next five years. It comes after an agreement earlier this year wh...

AN international firm, which runs a fire training business at a North-East airport, has re-affirmed its commitment to the troubled aviation base despite a major Government funding snub. Serco says it will invest in its Teesside International Fire Training Centre at Durham Tees Valley Airport, even though ministers rejected a £4.65m bid in July to hand the airport a vital lif...

Durham Tees Flight Training (DTFT), has acquired St George Flight Training based at Durham Tees Valley and Newcastle Airports. St George Flight Training has operated very successfully across the region since 1993 and is approved by the Civil Aviation Authority to teach courses for both the commercial pilot’s licence and instructor rating. Following the retirement of St Geor...