A campaign to save Durham Tees Valley Airport has been given wings after more than 2,000 people signed a petition demanding an inquiry into its sale and decline. Middlesbrough mayoral candidate Andy Preston organised the petition after local councils turned down Freedom of Information requests from ‘Save Teesside Airport’ campaigners, as they insisted details were “commercially sensitive”.
The campaign by residents across Teesside which Andy is supporting also aims to shed light on the decline in passengers since Peel took over in 2002, from a peak of more than 900,000 as recently as 2006 to latest annual figures of just 140,000 for the year ending February 2015 – a fall of 84%. In the same period of time Newcastle figures have increased by about 30% and Leeds by more than 120%.
Both a paper petition and an online version proved popular with people across Teesside, while an online poll saw 319 participants agreeing there should be an inquiry, compared to just 11 who were against the idea. Andy Preston aims to hand the petition to Middlesbrough Council “to show the strength of feeling the vast majority of Teessiders have about what most of us and still call Teesside Airport.”
Find out more about Andy Preston here. Follow Andy Preston on Twitter here.
Both a paper petition and an online version proved popular with people across Teesside, while an online poll saw 319 participants agreeing there should be an inquiry, compared to just 11 who were against the idea. Andy Preston aims to hand the petition to Middlesbrough Council “to show the strength of feeling the vast majority of Teessiders have about what most of us and still call Teesside Airport.”
Find out more about Andy Preston here. Follow Andy Preston on Twitter here.
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