DATA SPOTLIGHT: Teesside International Airport

17 September, 2020

This year the Corporate Travel Community (CTC) will feature some of the leading airlines, airports and country markets for air travel. Here, using the extensive profile insights available to CAPA - Centre for Aviation members to deliver a data snapshot at where they sit today in the Covid-19 impacted world, we look at Teesside International Airport, which has become the smallest facility to have a regular non-stop flight into the UK's London Heathrow hub.

The new service from Eastern Airways into London Heathrow represents a massive coup for the small airport that serves an area of north-east England as the facility, known most recently as Durham Tees Valley Airport, makes a journey back to sustainability having previously turned away charter traffic due to the high costs it faced in handling the services.

Now back under local council control there has a renewed enthusiasm for building connectivity from the airport, where the local population have had to rely on a regular Amsterdam connection with KLM to fly to the majority of international destinations, travel up to nearby Newcastle, where connectivity is also limited, or take a two-to- three hour plus journey by rail to Manchester, London or even up to Edinburgh.

It is over a decade since the airport was previously connected to London Heathrow, a period during which its future came into real doubt under its former owners, as highlighted by Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen and this week's launch of Eastern's landmark route. "In just 18 months we've gone from our airport facing the prospect of imminent closure, before I did a deal to save it, to an ever-expanding list of destinations and the first plane departing for Heathrow in over a decade," he said.


NETWORK MAP (as at 14-Sep-2020)

GLOBAL RANKING (as at 14-Sep-2020)

DESTINATIONS (as at 14-Sep-2020)

ANNUAL CAPACITY (2012-2020*)NOTE:The values for this year are at least partly predictive up to 6 months and may be subject to change

WEEKLY DOMESTIC CAPACITY (2017 - 2020*)NOTE:*the values for this year are at least partly predictive up to six months and may be subject to change.

WEEKLY INTERNATIONAL CAPACITY (2017-2020*)NOTE:*the values for this year are at least partly predictive up to six months and may be subject to change.

CAPACITY SPLIT BETWEEN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

CAPACITY SPLIT BETWEEN LOCAL AND FOREIGN OPERATORS (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

LARGEST AIRLINES BY CAPACITY (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

LARGEST DOMESTIC DESTINATION MARKETS (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

LARGEST INTERNATIONAL DESTINATION MARKETS (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

AVERAGE FLIGHT LENGTH (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

AIRLINE BUSINESS MODEL CAPACITY SPLIT (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

ALLIANCE CAPACITY SPLIT (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

INTERNATIONAL MARKET CAPACITY BREAKDOWN BY REGION (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

DEPARTING SYSTEM SEATS BY CLASS (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS BY MOVEMENTS (w/c 14-Sep-2020)

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