Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants
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I want Teesside Airport to continue trying to become profit making as per the plan. If the plan fails then there is a real argument about its future.Here's a solution, spend £20m on roads, £20m on schools, £20m on housing, £20m on infrastructure and £20m on hospitals?
Seems a bit more value in that, than £100m on an airport that not many use, that there are other options for within a reasonable distance.
Then for the next 4 years do the same again, for the other £400m we could have not lost in the Teesworks "deal".
200k people landed or took off from the airport last year (passenger numbers are incoming and outgoing)
100k return trips
75k of those from Tees Valley area at the most?
50k trips from tees valley, assuming the average person did 1.5 trips? I do about two trips per year from it. Keep in mind there will be Aberdeen workers doing a trip per week mind, or one every two weeks or so, that average could easily be higher.
So now we have what, 50k people from the tees valley using it out of ~1.1m in tees valley, so that's about 5% who may be getting a good ROI. Even if that was double, which it won't be, it's still a terrible ROI for 100% of the people.
If passenger numbers double, it won't be because double the people from Tees Valley are using it, it will more be because the same people who use it now are flying more. Instead of flying from Teesside for 1/3 of their holidays per year, they might go 2/3 etc.
Took me two minutes to figure that out, and that's not my job/ business, if I took that on dragons den I wouldn't make it out of the lift.
It's a extremely typical Tory scheme to benefit 5%, but try and sell it to 60% like it's a benefit, when it's not, not compared to what they lose out on.
It's not like if the local roads, schools, housing, infrastructure and hospitals are **** that we can just go an extra hour up the road and use theirs instead, and they be better (Unlike the alternate airports with more options). These things get used by 90% of the people and their families probably 90% of their days, in one way or another.
The ROI for a local airport and giving away land at Teesworks, and then paying to do it up is absolutely $hit. If Houchen was a businessman he would have went broke in year 1.
If the Malaga and Tenerife flights happen, that would appeal to many more people, some going on their yearly holiday.
Newcastle Airport was losing a shed load of money not so long back and were bailed out by an investment firm for around £100m. I personally think a NE International Airport would be better, somewhere in-between Newcastle and Middlesbrough, on a metro & rail line, somewhere in-between the A19/A1. Newcastle Airport being the other side of Newcastle would have made the argument against Teesside even greater. But whilst there is a current plan for Teesside I will contunue to use it and support it. It's a great little airport that is on the up.