Houchen tells Telegraph. 'I'm just naive'

NYboro said:
It will never make a profit, so it's coming out of all our taxes.
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There are more expensive things than Teesside International Airport coming out of our taxes. Teesside had a good airport in the early 2000s with nearly a million passengers per year. It was doing better financially than the crap Leeds Bradford which is built on a hill and can close if the weather is bad. Unfortunately Teesside was poorly managed and Leeds Bradford took up the slack. Time for Teesside to rise again. Good long runway. Can attract the Durham / Sunderland / North Yorkshire population and keep the prices down. (y)
 
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Jonny Ingbar said:
I've said on here a few times, the issue with Houchen and the MDC is that absolute lack of professional oversight.

Without that how does the public interest be ensured? Corruption and/or poor decision making can happen without and redress.
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'lack of professional oversight' is a very polite way of putting it. More like an unyielding resistance to any form of oversight.
 
JackG said:
'lack of professional oversight' is a very polite way of putting it. More like an unyielding resistance to any form of oversight.
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Yes, I guess 'unprofessional' oversight would be better than what they currently have, which is none.

And why would that be I wonder.
 
sambaDTR said:
There are more expensive things than Teesside International Airport coming out of our taxes. Teesside had a good airport in the early 2000s with nearly a million passengers per year. It was doing better financially than the crap Leeds Bradford which is built on a hill and can close if the weather is bad. Unfortunately Teesside was poorly managed and Leeds Bradford took up the slack. Time for Teesside to rise again. Good long runway. Can attract the Durham / Sunderland / North Yorkshire population and keep the prices down. (y)
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Teesside IS poorly managed.

It will end up shutting, but only after even more public money is thrown at it. Houchen will be long gone.

It saw fewer than half the passengers that Houchen had forecasted last year.

They constantly lie about the numbers. They announced that as an increase of 200%+ on the previous year, which would take 10 seconds to show to be wrong.

If you're honestly trying to compare LBA and Teesside its a waste of time. LBA had more than 3 million passengers in transit last year.
 
sambaDTR said:
There are more expensive things than Teesside International Airport coming out of our taxes. Teesside had a good airport in the early 2000s with nearly a million passengers per year. It was doing better financially than the crap Leeds Bradford which is built on a hill and can close if the weather is bad. Unfortunately Teesside was poorly managed and Leeds Bradford took up the slack. Time for Teesside to rise again. Good long runway. Can attract the Durham / Sunderland / North Yorkshire population and keep the prices down. (y)
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Want to buy a bridge?
 
BoroMart said:
That's just it though, the population that are closer to Teesside Airport and have demand for it's limited flight schedule are very unlikely to make it profitable, thus it's probably better to lose it and invest the money in something with a greater long term benefit.
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The money would be better spent upgrading the rail system to make Leeds and Newcastle airports more accessible in a faster time
 
jam69 said:
The money would be vetter spent upgrading the rail system to name Leeds and Newcastle airports more accessible in a faster time
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Very true, and that in itself would be infrastructure that could serve other purposes like quicker times to newcastle and leeds centre.
 
private eye have made article free from paywall

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Private Eye | Tees freeport : Lies of the land

TEES Valley mayor Ben Houchen has been bombarding social media with claims that the Eye's recent revelations that his South Tees Development Corporation (STDC) sold two pieces of land worth around ÂŁ100m for ÂŁ110.35 to a company controlled by local businessmen, Teesworks Ltd, are
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