From a busy airport adding new flights to a site once at risk of closure, there’s a lot happened at Teesside Airport through the years.
In the early 2000s the airport, then Durham Tees Valley Airport, appeared to be taking off. Plans were in place for an expanded terminal which could have catered for 3 million passengers a year.
But the plans failed to materialise, and it seemed the airport may be resigned to the past when it appeared destined to close under owners Peel.
That was until the airport was taken back into public hands in 2018.
The terminal has since undergone a revamp and passenger numbers in 2022 were the highest they’d been in a decade, with more than 170,000 people passing through the terminal.
In November the airport said it had beaten those figures already for 2023, but they still fall miles short of those aspirational figures floated in the 2000s.
We’ve taken a look through the archives at the airport through the years...
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