Birmingham: CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Scottie Dog]

As many of you may be aware I have been producing statistic on the Manchester airport thread for many years and thought that i would now augment those already kindly supplied by Ian Farquharson.

Passengers - 224,877 (September 2020) - Down 82.07% based on CAA figures
Movements - 2,784 (September 2020) - Down 71% based on CAA figures

Out of interest the total passengers for September 2000 were 828,382

Routes with highest passenger numbers:
View attachment 21008
Note - Skiathos is actually a positive increase and should have been shown as a green percentage change

Highest percentage change:
View attachment 21009
Unfortunately in these sad times this means that the negatives are the biggest achievers

20-year comparison - based on the busiest routes in 2000:
View attachment 21010

The effect of CV-19 on Air Transport Movements:
View attachment 21011

 

[Brum X]

With today's Jet2 announcement at BRS, I can really see them overtaking BHX in passenger numbers over the next 5 years if BHX doesn't pull something big out of the bag soon ??

 

[Coathanger16]

With today's Jet2 announcement at BRS, I can really see them overtaking BHX in passenger numbers over the next 5 years if BHX doesn't pull something big out of the bag soon ??

Depends what happens at Bristol. They've currently got a passenger cap of 10mppa. Application to increase it to 12mppa was rejected by local authority with Bristol in the process of appealing.

I do think without a new based airline (easyJet or Wizz), BHX will struggle to get much above 15mppa though.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

With today's Jet2 announcement at BRS, I can really see them overtaking BHX in passenger numbers over the next 5 years if BHX doesn't pull something big out of the bag soon ??

BRS won't overtake BHX. As Coathanger points out BRS is capped at 10 mppa and even if it wins its appeal it will still be capped at 12 mppa. Furthermore, the site is a small one in the middle of a Green Belt and incapable of much further development. The airport is talking about 20 mppa by the 2040s but a lot must happen in all sorts of spheres for that to come about.

Had Bristol Airport been located at the now closed Filton aerodrome with its longer runway and excellent motorway and rail connectivity FZO (I wonder if the code would have been altered to BRS) might have given BHX a run for its money, but it has to be remembered that BHX serves a substantially larger catchment than BRS.

Given all its disadvantages - small and high often mist-laden site, short runway, poor surface connectivity, awkward weather, Green Belt - BRS has done remarkably well to get where it did pre-pandemic, but there are limitations.

 

[Ray Finkle]

I do think without a new based airline (easyJet or Wizz), BHX will struggle to get much above 15mppa though.

The only airline I reckon could come even close to filling the gaps left by Flybe is easyjet but I just don't see it happening unfortunately.

A Wizz base would be most welcome, especially if BHX could persuade them to come in on missing destinations such as Milan and Lisbon. My concern is whether Wizz could/would bring back routes such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and Isle of Man (Loganair had winter slots or IOM but obviously haven't used them), which are all now missing? I also have my doubts that they'd bring back some of the now missing German routes, even their huge base at Luton has nothing to Germany.

It's going to be interesting to see where BHX position themselves when we eventually emerge from this mess.

 

[IanFarquharson]

September 2020

HEATHROW	1,256,617​		down		-81.46​	%
GATWICK	735,307​		down		-83.17​	%
STANSTED	663,683​		down		-74.58​	%
MANCHESTER	629,834​		down		-78.61​	%
LUTON	586,038​		down		-66.20​	%
EDINBURGH	265,630​		down		-80.71​	%
BIRMINGHAM	225,131​		down		-82.07​	%
BRISTOL	219,719​		down		-76.32​	%
BELFAST INT	173,407​		down		-69.94​	%
GLASGOW	150,736​		down		-82.94​	%
LIVERPOOL	119,783​		down		-73.91​	%
EAST MIDLANDS	104,045​		down		-81.07​	%
NEWCASTLE	95,560​		down		-82.88​	%
LEEDS BRADFORD	81,482​		down		-81.76​	%
ABERDEEN	71,159​		down		-72.82​	%
DONCASTER SHEFFIELD	45,531​		down		-71.46​	%
JERSEY	44,148​		down		-73.68​	%
BELFAST CITY	37,011​		down		-82.15​	%
LONDON CITY	28,472​		down		-93.96​	%
INVERNESS	28,154​		down		-69.28​	%
SOUTHAMPTON	16,699​		down		-89.83​	%
BOURNEMOUTH	15,971​		down		-82.90​	%
CARDIFF WALES	13,725​		down		-92.71​	%
SOUTHEND	13,202​		down		-93.73​	%
SUMBURGH	12,262​		down		-55.34​	%
GUERNSEY	10,396​		down		-87.59​	%
NORWICH	9,635​		down		-83.25​	%
EXETER	9,528​		down		-90.77​	%
PRESTWICK	9,023​		down		-88.26​	%
ISLES OF SCILLY (ST.MARYS)	8,724​		down		-10.02​	%
NEWQUAY	6,507​		down		-84.90​	%
LANDS END (ST JUST)	6,337​		up		6.84​	%
KIRKWALL	6,175​		down		-65.07​	%
CITY OF DERRY (EGLINTON)	5,596​		down		-65.20​	%
ISLE OF MAN	5,046​		down		-92.92​	%
ALDERNEY	4,005​		down		-20.35​	%
STORNOWAY	3,996​		down		-66.78​	%
TEESSIDE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT	3,333​		down		-77.74​	%
HUMBERSIDE	2,654​		down		-86.20​	%
BLACKPOOL	1,341​		down		-10.42​	%
DUNDEE	1,317​		down		-28.11​	%
BENBECULA	1,279​		down		-52.44​	%
ISLAY	939​		down		-71.57​	%
BARRA	930​		down		-20.85​	%
TIREE	896​		down		-16.06​	%
CAMPBELTOWN	314​		down		-53.73​	%
BIGGIN HILL	225​		up		4.65​	%
LERWICK (TINGWALL)	157​		down		-56.15​	%
OXFORD (KIDLINGTON)	74​				Null	%

 

[IanFarquharson]

12m ending 30.09.20

Heathrow – 38,899,679 down 51.70%

Gatwick – 19,761,834 down 57.49%

Stansted – 13,149,593 down 53.51%

Manchester – 12,517,176 down 57.52%

Luton – 9,115,101 down 49.30%

Edinburgh – 6,507,473 down 55.95%

Birmingham – 5,134,713 down 58.20%

Bristol – 3,924,281 down 56.20%

Glasgow – 3,643,199 down 59.58%

Belfast Int – 2,844,766 down 55.67%

East Midlands – 1,643,681 down 65.70%

 

[Brum X]

Bristol catching BHX AND WOW Luton nearly handling more pax than MAN

These are crazy times

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there all, I think that due to the current situation world wide, nearly all airports around the world will suffer, some more than others. Let's hope the if the post that I have read from another subject on this forum stated that, once the current situation starts to resolve it self, let's hope that management and investors at Birmingham Airport Don't cause massive issues by increasing any charges to current airlines that fly from Birmingham Airport, otherwise, these committed airlines could decide to leave the airport and leave it in a mess. So I appeal to all airport management and investors, drop any ideas of increasing charges...AndyC

 

[Coathanger16]

Hi there all, I think that due to the current situation world wide, nearly all airports around the world will suffer, some more than others. Let's hope the if the post that I have read from another subject on this forum stated that, once the current situation starts to resolve it self, let's hope that management and investors at Birmingham Airport Don't cause massive issues by increasing any charges to current airlines that fly from Birmingham Airport, otherwise, these committed airlines could decide to leave the airport and leave it in a mess. So I appeal to all airport management and investors, drop any ideas of increasing charges...AndyC

There will need to be a balance. If they'd don't recoup their costs, there won't be any airport for the airlines to fly out of.

 

[JENNYJET]

I have not trespassed upon the LHR thread so forgive me please if the answer to my query is obvious.

Have the management at the nation's biggest been given a leg up during the crisis by our marvellous government? If yes, why ? Are the regionals not worthy of support?

 

[IanFarquharson]

I have not trespassed upon the LHR thread so forgive me please if the answer to my query is obvious.

Have the management at the nation's biggest been given a leg up during the crisis by our marvellous government? If yes, why ? Are the regionals not worthy of support?

LHR are a privatly owned company so why would the HMG give them a leg up ?

 

[JENNYJET]

For the National Interest perhaps?

 

[Scottie Dog]

October's statistics are now out on the CAA website. I'm still fine-tuning my formats for data, however here is my first offering.

Passenger numbers - 144,314 down 86.92pc - October 2019 had 1,103,107

CHART 1 - By Passengers
Destination	Total	% Change
DUBLIN	4,275	-94.60
AMSTERDAM	7,140	-88.15
ISTANBUL	7,268	-87.92
PALMA DE MALLORCA	506	-98.87
ALICANTE	3,222	-92.17
MALAGA	2,613	-92.25
PARIS (CHARLES DE GAULLE)	2,175	-93.27
TENERIFE (SURREINA SOFIA)	2,274	-92.92
FARO	2,635	-91.68
FRANKFURT MAIN	4,786	-83.09
BELFAST CITY (GEORGE BEST)	2,026	-91.60
DUSSELDORF	2,621	-89.13
EDINBURGH	4,414	-81.48
ARRECIFE	1,353	-94.20
BELFAST INTERNATIONAL	9,534	-56.35
BARCELONA	2,344	-89.08
GLASGOW	1,774	-91.54
MUNICH	1,467	-92.32
BODRUM (MILAS)	3,462	-79.00
LARNACA	3,765	-75.81
LAS PALMAS	573	-96.28
ANTALYA	3,682	-74.51
IBIZA	298	-97.91
ZURICH	3,142	-77.69
FUERTEVENTURA	1,409	-89.62
CHART 2 - By Percentage Change
Destination	Total	% Change
KEFALLINIA	431	253.28​
KOS	8,846	65.69​
RHODES	14,241	60.30​
EAST MIDLANDS	72	22.03​
TOULOUSE (BLAGNAC)	101	0.00​
SKIATHOS	388	0.00​
CRAIOVA	532	0.00​
SOUTHAMPTON	29	0.00​
FUNCHAL	1,400	-2.57​
SALONIKA	464	-27.16​
CORFU	5,827	-30.35​
SOFIA	2,637	-49.89​
CLUJ NAPOCA	1,345	-54.08​
BELFAST INTERNATIONAL	9,534	-56.35​
GDANSK	1,266	-59.19​
BYDGOSZCZ	1,703	-65.20​
KATOWICE	982	-65.66​
VERONA VILLAFRANCA	846	-67.70​
PAPHOS	3,593	-68.10​
BUCHAREST (OTOPENI)	3,639	-68.79​
ZAKINTHOS	1,216	-70.33​
WROCLAW	678	-74.27​
WARSAW (MODLIN MASOVIA)	1,137	-74.28​
MURCIA INTERNATIONAL	1,545	-74.30​
ANTALYA	3,682	-74.51​
CHART 3 - By 20 Year Change
Destination	Oct-00	Oct-20
DUBLIN	50,923	4,275
PALMA DE MALLORCA	44,504	506
AMSTERDAM	37,845	7,140
PARIS (CHARLES DE GAULLE)	35,994	2,175
TENERIFE (SURREINA SOFIA)	24,894	2,274
FARO	23,528	2,635
BRUSSELS	22,248	-
FRANKFURT MAIN	20,844	4,786
MALAGA	19,851	2,613
IBIZA	18,746	298
ALICANTE	16,868	3,222
DUSSELDORF	15,784	2,621
LAS PALMAS	14,905	573
LARNACA	13,529	3,765
MAHON	13,111	-
MUNICH	12,389	1,467
CORK	11,992	-
PAPHOS	11,401	3,593
CORFU	11,337	5,827
ARRECIFE	11,310	1,353
CHICAGO (O'HARE)	10,033
NEW YORK (NEWARK)	9,106
MONASTIR	8,201
HERAKLION	8,082	930
REUS	8,027	334

Edited to show total passenger numbers and percentage change

 

[Scottie Dog]

I'm experimenting a little here, so please accept my apologies if things are not lining up correctly at the moment. A breakdown of passenger types for the Financial Year is not easy to quickly garner and so I have just given the total in that section. Any suggestions gratefully appreciated via PM (to save unnecessary space).

Hopefully by the time I produce November's data I'll be slightly more expert - and apologies to IanF if I'm treading in your area

MONTHLY PASSENGER STATISTICS FOR 2020/2021

	October-20
	MONTH			FINANCIAL YEAR TO DATE		MOVING
	LAST YEAR	THIS YEAR	% ACTUAL	LAST YEAR	THIS YEAR	% ACTUAL	ANNUAL	% CHANGE
	ACTUAL	ACTUAL	/LAST YEAR	ACTUAL	ACTUAL	/LAST YEAR	TOTAL
			AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS
TOTAL	9,562	2,828	-70.42	70,817	13,130	-81.46	94,585	-66.07
			TOTAL PASSENGERS
DOMESTIC	117,579	19,270	-83.61			-100.00		-100.00
INTERNATIONAL	985,528	125,044	-87.31			-100.00		-100.00
TOTAL	1,103,107	144,314	-86.92	12,127,316	777,330	-93.59	2,730,927	-78.41
			FREIGHT (INCL. MAIL) TONNES
TOTAL	2,870	1,867	-34.94	18,405	7,828	-57.47	14,345	-43.84

 

[IanFarquharson]

12m end 31.10.20

Heathrow – 33,150,751 down 58.86%

Gatwick – 16,201,375 down 65.11%

Stansted – 11,063,512 down 60.83%

Manchester – 10,416,198 down 64.59%

Luton – 7,755,046 down 57.19%

Edinburgh – 5,363,863 down 63.66%

Birmingham – 4,355,928 down 65.64%

Bristol – 3,246,375 down 63.69%

Glasgow – 2,979,480 down 66.52%

Belfast Int – 2,436,516 down 61.83%

East Midlands – 1,286,899 down 72.76%

 

[JENNYJET]

Given the circumstances, I feel that 4.35m is rather better for BHX than hoped for, not quite the ghostland feared last Spring.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Given the circumstances, I feel that 4.35m is rather better for BHX than hoped for, not quite the ghostland feared last Spring.

But half of the figure is outside the COVID period so 4.35m will sink a lot further in the coming months

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there Ian, I think we need to know, what passenger figures were from between Jan this year and as soon as lockdown happened, then from when uk airports were allowed to reopen again ,upon until present, this then gives us roughly how many passengers Birmingham Airport has handled in between lockdown .AndyC

 

[IanFarquharson]

2006

% +/-

2007

% +/-

2008

% +/-

2009

% +/-

2010

% +/-

2011

% +/-

2012

% +/-

2013

% +/-

2014

% +/-

2015

% +/-

January

564,699​

6.00%​

576,460​

2.08%​

576,081​

-0.07%​

561,604​

-2.51%​

521,185​

-7.20%​

522,765​

0.30%​

501,583​

-4.05%​

496,595​

-0.99%​

549,246​

10.60%​

611,467​

11.33%​

February

598,387​

5.01%​

581,007​

-2.90%​

634,760​

9.25%​

585,752​

-7.72%​

548,738​

-6.32%​

535,695​

-2.38%​

531,374​

-0.81%​

534,570​

0.60%​

577,306​

7.99%​

629,843​

9.10%​

March

673,797​

2.41%​

673,515​

-0.04%​

729,209​

8.27%​

674,293​

-7.53%​

663,114​

-1.66%​

621,925​

-6.21%​

631,235​

1.50%​

625,806​

-0.86%​

654,544​

4.59%​

730,881​

11.66%​

April

696,892​

4.10%​

670,219​

-3.83%​

711,942​

6.23%​

716,965​

0.71%​

539,246​

-24.79%​

686,240​

27.26%​

702,145​

2.32%​

650,212​

-7.40%​

758,456​

16.65%​

771,483​

1.72%​

May

837,072​

-1.81%​

829,760​

-0.87%​

877,012​

5.69%​

831,738​

-5.16%​

788,573​

-5.19%​

778,849​

-1.23%​

790,819​

1.54%​

847,894​

7.22%​

894,377​

5.48%​

904,484​

1.13%​

June

890,966​

-7.23%​

911,220​

2.27%​

936,798​

2.81%​

898,574​

-4.08%​

871,385​

-3.03%​

861,299​

-1.16%​

913,239​

6.03%​

944,227​

3.39%​

961,121​

1.79%​

989,136​

2.91%​

July

955,912​

-6.58%​

963,539​

0.80%​

1,036,104​

7.53%​

969,226​

-6.45%​

928,268​

-4.23%​

938,739​

1.13%​

976,794​

4.05%​

1,005,083​

2.90%​

1,051,064​

4.57%​

1,071,259​

1.92%​

August

983,918​

-6.21%​

1,005,484​

2.19%​

1,079,970​

7.41%​

1,014,553​

-6.06%​

965,761​

-4.81%​

945,448​

-2.10%​

1,031,183​

9.07%​

1,049,862​

1.81%​

1,104,170​

5.17%​

1,138,448​

3.10%​

September

949,683​

-7.17%​

969,158​

2.05%​

984,127​

1.54%​

937,205​

-4.77%​

917,858​

-2.06%​

904,114​

-1.50%​

947,196​

4.77%​

975,445​

2.98%​

1,008,408​

3.38%​

1,042,637​

3.39%​

October

826,291​

-7.62%​

850,034​

2.87%​

844,315​

-0.67%​

796,014​

-5.72%​

793,357​

-0.33%​

763,256​

-3.79%​

796,014​

4.29%​

830,037​

4.27%​

877,835​

5.76%​

920,484​

4.86%​

November

595,895​

1.80%​

610,216​

2.40%​

620,283​

1.65%​

566,690​

-8.64%​

544,619​

-3.89%​

546,644​

0.37%​

568,722​

4.04%​

587,999​

3.39%​

646,604​

9.97%​

692,408​

7.08%​

December

574,003​

1.86%​

595,000​

3.66%​

597,653​

0.45%​

550,209​

-7.94%​

490,294​

-10.89%​

509,957​

4.01%​

532,216​

4.36%​

572,471​

7.56%​

621,730​

8.60%​

683,398​

9.92%​

Total

9,147,515​

-2.49%​

9,235,612​

0.96%​

9,628,254​

4.25%​

9,102,823​

-5.46%​

8,572,398​

-5.83%​

8,614,931​

0.50%​

8,922,520​

3.57%​

9,120,201​

2.22%​

9,704,861​

6.41%​

10,185,928​

4.96%​

2016

% +/-

2017

% +/-

2018

% +/-

2019

% +/-

2020

% +/-

2021

% +/-

January

666,681​

9.03%​

776,646​

16.49%​

746,609​

-3.87%​

781,258​

4.64%​

776,704​

-0.58%​

February

724,187​

14.98%​

809,239​

11.74%​

764,901​

-5.48%​

792,205​

3.57%​

788,402​

-0.48%​

March

831,174​

13.72%​

904,814​

8.86%​

879,517​

-2.80%​

903,425​

2.72%​

388,491​

-57.00%​

April

873,965​

13.28%​

1,063,571​

21.69%​

962,715​

-9.48%​

1,004,085​

4.30%​

4,768​

-99.53%​

May

1,007,564​

11.40%​

1,202,880​

19.38%​

1,132,818​

-5.82%​

1,165,846​

2.92%​

6,184​

-99.47%​

June

1,119,431​

13.17%​

1,302,204​

16.33%​

1,239,181​

-4.84%​

1,259,647​

1.65%​

13,594​

-98.92%​

July

1,222,584​

14.13%​

1,436,756​

17.52%​

1,313,887​

-8.55%​

1,354,772​

3.11%​

135,145​

-90.02%​

August

1,287,524​

13.09%​

1,496,213​

16.21%​

1,368,524​

-8.53%​

1,407,086​

2.82%​

248,155​

-82.36%​

September

1,208,581​

15.92%​

1,362,559​

12.74%​

1,255,406​

-7.86%​

1,254,144​

-0.10%​

225,131​

-82.05%​

October

1,075,392​

16.83%​

1,076,359​

0.09%​

1,143,208​

6.21%​

1,103,138​

-3.51%​

144,353​

-86.91%​

November

779,669​

12.60%​

767,910​

-1.51%​

824,531​

7.37%​

810,622​

-1.69%​

-100.00%​

December

847,530​

24.02%​

791,152​

-6.65%​

825,754​

4.37%​

814,379​

-1.38%​

-100.00%​

Total

11,644,282​

14.32%​

12,990,303​

11.56%​

12,457,051​

-4.11%​

12,650,607​

1.55%​

2,730,927​

-78.41%​