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Durham Tees Valley Airport
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IATA: MME - ICAO: EGNV
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Public</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Local Authorities and Peel Holdings</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Tees Valley</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		120 ft (37 m)
Coordinates		54°30′33″N, 01°25′46″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
05/23	7,516	2,291	Asphalt
01/19 - disused	2,427	740	Asphalt
10/28 - disused	3,700	1,128	Asphalt

Image:Dtv1.jpg Image:100 6266skyexpress.JPG Durham Tees Valley Airport (IATA: MME, ICAO: EGNV) is an airport in North East England, located 10 km (6 miles) east of Darlington, about 16 km (10 miles) southwest of Middlesbrough and 39 km (24 miles) south of Durham. The airport is also easily accessible from Cleveland, Newcastle, Stockton, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Redcar and York.

Previously called Teesside International Airport, it was renamed on September 21st 2004 as part of a redevelopment plan in a move unpopular with many local residents. The airport justified the change since it had anticipated the basing of the headquarters for a North East Regional Assembly in Durham City, a proposal turned down by the regions's voters.

Durham Tees Valley Airport is one of the UK's smaller airports, but it is rapidly expanding, and a number of scheduled and charter flights are operated from here.

Contents 1 History 2 Present ownership and status 3 Transport 4 Recent Events 5 Airlines and destinations 5.1 Scheduled 5.2 Charter 5.3 Freight 6 General Aviation 6.1 Light Aviation and Flight Training 6.2 Business Charter 6.3 Other Operators 7 Passenger and Cargo Statistics 8 External links

[edit] History

Durham Tees Valley was a RAF base, RAF Middleton St. George (known as RAF Goosepool until 1941). In 1963, the decision was made to close the airfield, and it was sold to Cleveland County Council who developed the site into a commercial airport. Princess Margaretha of Sweden opened the international passenger terminal in 1966. The airport has since been developed as a regional airport for the North East of England, and has expanded successfully ever since.

[edit] Present ownership and status

The airport is owned by a consortium of local authorities (Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool & Redcar and Cleveland borough councils) as well as Peel Holdings.

Durham Tees Valley Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P518) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers and for flying instruction.

[edit] Transport

A new bus service, the Sky Express, was launched in May 2005, connecting the airport with Darlington's train station and town hall, operated by Arriva North-East. Travel is free for passengers with a valid air ticket on the day, or £2 without. The service runs hourly throughout the day. Whilst the airport has its own railway station this is only served by two trains a week.

[edit] Recent Events

Between 14th September 2006 and 7th November 2006, Durham Tees Valley Airport went through the most dramatic and memorable changes in its history. On 14th September 2006, the airport's largest operating airline bmibaby announced it was to cancel all services from Durham Tees Valley Airport by early November 2006, thus leaving the airport with significantly fewer scheduled services. However on October 5th 2006, less than one month after bmibabys announcement, Flyglobespan announced that they are to base two aircraft at the airport from Summer 2007, flying initially to four sunspots - Alicante, Faro, Málaga and Palma. Prior to Flyglobespans announcement, they had already announced that they are to fly to Tenerife South for winter 2006/2007, a route which will now continue into the summer 2007 base operation. On 7th November 2006, the airline announced a further five routes from the airport, these being Ibiza, Jersey, Mahon (Menorca), Nice and Pula (Croatia). Flyglobespan currently have two Boeing 737-700's on order and it's strongly rumoured that one of these along with one of the airlines existing Boeing 737-600's will be based at the airport.

Additionally, the Irish low cost carrier Ryanair has announced a new route to Girona-Costa Brava Airport (Barcelona-Girona) from February 2007, and the Polish-Hungarian low cost carrier Wizz Air has announced a new route to Warsaw from late July 2007.

It is also strongly rumoured that Thomsonfly will not be continuing the annual summer base operation after the 2006 season has ended, but in a recent twist of events, part of the rumour is that if the base operation is discontinued, the airline will still operate from the airport through what are called "w" patterns, whether all the routes involved in the base operation will be flown in this way though remains to be seen. On the Thomsonfly website, the Monastir route has been dropped in favour of a new route to Varna, and the flight number of the Ibiza route has been changed, so it is likely that the airline is not by any means fully leaving the airport.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Scheduled

• bmi (London Heathrow)
• Eastern Airways (Aberdeen, Brussels)
• Flyglobespan (Tenerife South, Alicante [starts 1st April 2007], Faro [starts 1st April 2007], Ibiza [starts 25th May 2007], Jersey [starts 30th June 2007], Mahon [starts 30th June 2007] Málaga [starts 30th March 2007], Nice [starts 1st July 2007], Palma [starts 30th March 2007] and Pula [starts 28th June 2007])
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
  • KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
• Ryanair (Dublin, Barcelona Girona [starts 12th February 2007])
• Wizz Air (Warsaw [starts 28th July 2007])

[edit] Charter

• Air Europa (Tenerife South)
• BH Air (Bourgas [starts Summer 2007])
• bmi (Reus [starts Summer 2007])
• Iberworld (Lanzarote [starts Summer 2007], Palma [starts Summer 2007])
• VLM (Jersey [starts Summer 2007])
• Onur Air (Bodrum [starts Summer 2007], Dalaman [starts Summer 2007])
• Pegasus Airlines (Dalaman [starts Summer 2007])
• Spanair (Alicante [starts Summer 2007], Ibiza [starts Summer 2007], Palma [starts Summer 2007])
• Thomsonfly (Alicante, Bourgas [starts Summer 2007], Corfu [starts Summer 2007], Dalaman [starts Summer 2007], Ibiza [starts Summer 2007], Malaga [starts Summer 2007], Menorca [starts Summer 2007], Palma [starts Summer 2007], Paphos [starts Summer 2007], Reus [starts Summer 2007], Tenerife South [starts Summer 2007], Varna [starts Summer 2007])

[edit] Freight

• TNT Airways (Hannover, Liege) (sometimes Cardiff or Liverpool)

[edit] General Aviation

[edit] Light Aviation and Flight Training

The airport is one of the more General Aviation friendly bases in Northern England, with no handling charge for GA aircraft under 2 tonnes. The Cleveland Flying School and St George Flight Training are based at the airfield, where it is possible to undertake basic and advanced flight training.

[edit] Business Charter

Northern Aviation operate two Beech Super King Air B200's as charter aircraft from Durham Tees Valley Airport. They also operate a number of Cessna and Piper aircraft and a single Bell 206 Jet Ranger.

[edit] Other Operators

Durham Tees Valley is a significant base for FR Aviation, part of the Cobham Group, who have a fleet of Dassault Falcon 20's based there. FRA's Durham Tees Valley aircraft fly electronic countermeasure flights for the Royal Air Force and other NATO airforces.

FR Aviation has a subsidiary based at Durham Tees Valley called Flight Precision, who operate four Beech Super King Air B200's.

The Great North Air Ambulance has a single McDonnell Douglas MD902 Explorer based at the airport and the Police have the North East Air Unit based here in the form of a Eurocopter EC-135T-2.

[edit] Passenger and Cargo Statistics

	Number of Passengers	Aircraft Movements	Cargo (tonnes)	Cargo (1000s lbs)
1998	664,093	66,246	1,483	3,269
1999	742,201	59,904	3,070	6,768
2000	754,989	54,829	3,113	6,862
2001	750,089	57,638	2,648	5,837
2002	683,947	51,151	1,103	2,431
2003	712,394	51,527	853	1,880
2004	808,000	45,500	980	2,160
2005	906,000	51,000	985	2,171
Source: A-Z of World Airports [1]

[edit] External links

• Durham Tees Valley Airport official website