Flyglobespan to announce flights decision this month
01.01.09
Scottish holiday airline Flyglobespan will decide this month whether to continue to offer flights from Durham Tees Valley Airport, the Northern Echo reports. A decision is being made because the aircraft based at the airport is coming to the end of its lease. The airline's chief executive, Rick Green, said a review of its operations would be completed early in the year.
Mr Green told the newspaper: ‘Under normal circumstances, we would have the summer’s itinerary finalised by now. The reason we are still deciding it is that the plane flying from Durham Tees Valley Airport reaches its end of lease in February.'
'We need to make a decision on the economics of a new plane, the market and demand. As we know the world is in financial meltdown. However, we see a reasonable demand from Durham Tees Valley. The situation is under ongoing review and we will conclude our findings by January 10. Then we will decide either we can source an alternative aircraft or we can’t.’
Given that other airlines - and Flyglobespan for all of its other UK airports - announced their summer flights (and put them on sale) months ago, the signs do not look good for Durham Tees Valley. If Flyglobespan does offer flights from the airport this summer, we would not expect many routes.
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