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Airport boosted after job cuts

Just days after announcing plans to cut 30 jobs from its workforce, Durham Tees Valley Airport has been boosted by the addition of several new flights to its schedule.

Later this year Thomson Airways will introduce new flights to Tenerife and the first services from the airport to Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea.

The new services are expected to add 18,000 new customers to the airport’s annual passenger traffic and will come as a much-needed boost to its embattled owner Peel Group Holdings.

Last week the company announced plans to cut 32 staff from its 175-strong team, partly in reaction to a reduction in flights from budget airlines Ryan Air and BMI Baby in recent years.

On Friday it also emerged that only 300,000 people had passed through the airport’s gates in 2009 – just half of 2008 levels.

The new flights are due to start in November, with Thomson also reinstating services to Tenerife and Alicante.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .