CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Brum X]

Hi All, hope you are all well. I've been keeping track of how many Departures we are currently having on a daily basis. Does anyone know where there would be any figures to show how many weekly or monthly movements there were last year to do a comparison? Many thanks.

But why do you want to do a comparison ? We know things are grim out there and that certainly isn't going to help, in fact even comparing today with monthly movements in April 1986 is also going to look pretty poor don't you think ?

 

[IanFarquharson]

March 2020
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[IanFarquharson]

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[Scottie Dog]

Thanks Ian - interesting to see that neither Gatwick or Liverpool have published figures. I'll be producing my figures later this evening.

 

[Aviador]

Horrific. but at least BHX isn't on it's own in this. Lets hope we see a quick recovery once we get to grips with this disease.

 

[Brum X]

And no Bristol ?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

And no Bristol ?

Bristol is late nearly every month - invariably amongst the last airports to be published, usually several weeks behind the first batch.

As a result BRS rarely features in the 'league table 'Airports Satistics Summary' because that table disappears each month as soon as the final airports are published. Consequently, it's necessary to refer to table 09 to establish BRS monthly passenger figures and also to work out the rolling 12-month total from that.

 

[Ianbutty]

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Soon we will see April and think march was a good month. These are exceptional times and it is the same everywhere.

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there all, yes this year is going to be a year to forget for the questionable issue that we are currently in. Once this is finally over, probably next year ish, a different way of planning is now needed for the future...andyc

 

[IanFarquharson]

BHX April Pax

4,768 !

Just behind Scatsta at 4,795 !!

Gatwick - 9,435

Luton - 14,183

Stansted – 13,721

Edinburgh – 5,381

Norwich – 4,016



Ian

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Yet again Birmingham always behind and playing catch up, not heard anything from Mr Barton, has he gone into lock down as well, not wanting to give anyone any updates at what is going on at the moment at the airport, just left to members on this forum, and what fantastic work you do, can on.. Andyc

 

[Coathanger16]

Yet again Birmingham always behind and playing catch up

From those listed all but two were larger than BHX pre-Covid. Norwich is still handling less pax than BHX, and the only reason Scatsta is handling more is that it serves the Shetland ISLANDS where air travel is the main connection to the mainland!

 

[Brum X]

Yet again Birmingham always behind and playing catch up, not heard anything from Mr Barton, has he gone into lock down as well, not wanting to give anyone any updates at what is going on at the moment at the airport, just left to members on this forum, and what fantastic work you do, can on.. Andyc

Well you wouldn't expect BHX to suddenly be in front would you Andrew ? We are talking about LGW/LTN/STN and EDI which as Coathanger16 has mentioned were already larger airports than BHX ?

 

[IanFarquharson]

Yet again Birmingham always behind and playing catch up, not heard anything from Mr Barton, has he gone into lock down as well, not wanting to give anyone any updates at what is going on at the moment at the airport, just left to members on this forum, and what fantastic work you do, can on.. Andyc

You may hear from Mr Barton soon !

 

[andrew.clarkson]

So, how come Luton Airport has suddenly become larger than Birmingham Airport, when its runaway is less than Birminghams

 

[Coathanger16]

Andy we've been over this before - the length of an airports runway has nothing to do with how busy it is or should be!

Zhukovsky Airport in Russia has the longest commercial runway in the world at just under 5.5km (vs 3km at BHX and 2.2km at LTN), yet only handles just over 1 million passengers a year.

Closer to home, London City has one of the shortest commercial runways in the UK - just 1.5km - yet is busier than airports with longer runways - LPL, EMA, LBA, ABZ, BHD, etc. Should they all be embarrassed that an airport with a short runway handles more passengers than they do? Of course not!

The only instance that BHX having a longer runway than LTN becomes a factor is in handling long haul flights which, to be honest, LTN seems to be coping perfectly fine without!

 

[Kevin Farnell]

So, how come Luton Airport has suddenly become larger than Birmingham Airport, when its runaway is less than Birminghams

Airlines don't choose destinations by runway length, but rather passenger demand.
And Luton Airport hasn't suddenly become larger than Birmingham Airport, it's been busier for decades.

Kevin

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Which is where Birmingham Airport has been missing out on for years, yet nothing has ever changed to sort that out.

 

[Coathanger16]

Given its close proximity to Heathrow and Manchester (for long haul) and Luton, Bristol and Manchester (each with large EZY bases), the airports done fairly well all things considered.

There weren't many airports in Europe, or even globally, that handled 2 A380 flights a day!

 

[jfy1999]

From those listed all but two were larger than BHX pre-Covid. Norwich is still handling less pax than BHX, and the only reason Scatsta is handling more is that it serves the Shetland ISLANDS where air travel is the main connection to the mainland!

Just to add to the above, the reason Norwich is so close behind us is that it has continued to serve helicopters to the North Sea oil rigs, which are counted in their passenger stats.

If I had to guess I would say almost all STN pax will hve been to/from Dublin. LTN is higher than STN overall as Wizz Air have kept more flights going than Ryanair.