CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[pug]

AMS with Easyjet in June handled 4696 pax. If that operated every day that is an average of 78 seats filled on every flight, so again just over 50% load factor.

DSA to DUB carried 1609 in June, i stand to be corrected but i believe the flights operated every day last month? If so that is an average of 27 seats filled on every flight so not much change from May.

DSA to PRG recorded 2593 pax in June. I crudely worked out that 12 flights operated in June? So in that working then on average 108 seats were filled on these flights, more encouraging than AMS or DUB.

DSA to Barcelona handled 4006 in June, did that operate 12 or 16 flights?

Im not sure on the two other EZY routes as they are all operated alongside Thomsonfly.

For some reason DSA to BHD is showing as only handling 30 pax in June... Presumably an error.

 

[Aviador]

CAA Stats for July

Passenger numbers for July were 22.2% up compared with the same month last year. Passenger numbers for the month of July were 113,465.

The rolling year passenger numbers stand at 814,343 down -8.7%.

Climbing out of the doldrums at long last.

 

[pug]

Would seem EZY are the sole source of the rise in figures, we shall have to see what they offer next year, could be up even more or could me negative double digit again...

 

[Aviador]

August passenger stats.

Passenger figures for August stand at 119,405 up -20.5% on the same month last year. Rolling year passenger numbers stand at 834,683 down -5.2% year on year.

Source: CAA

 

[muddycoffee]

I guess that this thread is the new home for my DSA PAX update..
Here goes...

While I'm at it, I find it well worth reporting that we can see the second best september figures since the airport was opened.

 

[yorkshire]

Welcome muddycoffee

i like the pax update table you have done.. very easy to understand and you can see how the airport is performing, it would be good if we had something like this for leeds/bradford.

 

[muddycoffee]

Thanks.

I have been maintaining this table for around 3 or 4 years now. I just keep a spreadsheet on google documents and take a screen shot of it everytime I update. It is quite useful to defend the airport against the "knockers" who like to proclaim doom and gloom.
There are loads of them and without any facts they latch on to any news and claim that the airport will be closing soon. Must be jelousy or just trolling behaviour.

 

[pug]

Welcome to the forum muddycoffee.

You will find that a more open debate will be welcomed in here, and you will get the 'knockers', i assume you would class me in that bracket, but i hope it makes for a more interesting forum than the previous heavily censored one.

Not all of the knockers are without facts or are trolls (though i am aware there are some).

 

[muddycoffee]

Thanks Pug,
When I think about it the posters I was refferring to are on the skyscraper city forum rather than the old DSA forum.

 

[ryan]

Octobers passenger numbers should be available today according to the CAA website, though with it being a Sunday, I presume they'll be out tomorrow!

 

[Seasider]

According to the CAA website they are due for publication tomorrow (15th).

 

[muddycoffee]

According to the CAA website they are due for publication tomorrow (15th).

great stuff, can someone post the figs tomorrow and when I get back home late afternoon I will update..

:beer:

 

[eastcoaster]

Provisional CAA figures published for October. Pax 95438 +25% on same month 2009. Rolling year 870742 +1.5%

 

[muddycoffee]

Thanks for the update, it is a real pleasure to update again knowing I have a new network of helpful posters to help find the figures and also that the figures are so good.

 

[ryan]

Will we make 1 million for the year? It's 50,000 thereabouts for each of the months, which looking at last year might be difficult, but we have easyJet this year to boost the numbers and an increased number of cruise flights.

 

[muddycoffee]

I don't think so, will probably be 9xx,xxx

Chances are that this year will be 3rd best but there is a slight chance that we could hit a second. All this is good news really after the decline since 2007 which matches the economic recession. Shows that overall things may be picking up again.
I have always believed that the best and most safe and sustainable senario for the airport would be a slow steady increase in flights and PAX over many years. Many other posters on the forums I have been on with a DSA thread or an interest in the airport, have been far too impatient and when a massive explosion in business has not happend within a year have been predicting failure, which I have always found naive.

 

[ryan]

I don't think so, will probably be 9xx,xxx

Chances are that this year will be 3rd best but there is a slight chance that we could hit a second. All this is good news really after the decline since 2007 which matches the economic recession. Shows that overall things may be picking up again.
I have always believed that the best and most safe and sustainable senario for the airport would be a slow steady increase in flights and PAX over many years. Many other posters on the forums I have been on with a DSA thread or an interest in the airport, have been far too impatient and when a massive explosion in business has not happend within a year have been predicting failure, which I have always found naive.

In some ways, it already has been explosive - DSA went from zero to about a million passengers per annum in just over two years from it first opening (as proved on your table above). Granted, it dipped slightly, but it's on the way back up. LBA, for comparison, hit it's first million in 1996 - 79 years (or 63, depending which way you look at it - WW2) after it first opened. Of course, some may see this as clutching at straws, but you can't argue with facts!

 

[pug]

LBA, for comparison, hit it's first million in 1996 - 79 years (or 63, depending which way you look at it - WW2) after it first opened. Of course, some may see this as clutching at straws, but you can't argue with facts!

I disagree, in fact you can argue with those statistics.

The fact is, LBA carried 1 million passengers before the low-cost boom, before it even had a low-cost airline. You may remember that LPL was handling around 400,000 at the time, and EMA and NCL were'nt even on 2 million.

DSA opened at the height of the boom years in airtravel, hence why it managed to handle 1mppa within just a couple of years. This has dropped off to around 800,000 and dont forget EZY will be leaving in January (Aer Arrann have already gone) so there will be a decline next year again. Thus far, it has been proven that 1mppa at DSA is unsustainable, and so are certain markets.

There is an announcement expected soon, but it is not regarding passenger flights, and i dont expect it to be made big news either, but it might add a bit to the coffers. As far as extended passenger services go, who knows?!

 

[eastcoaster]

I noticed the Wizzair figures for all destinations were down on the same month last year. In fact, significantly down percentage wise, upto 30%. Is it because there were less flights per week to these destinations as against last year? I hope the tide is not turning as Poles are returning home for good, as we keep getting told on the news. Maybe someone can explain that it is hopefully only a temporary glitch in reduced scheduling.

 

[White Heather]

It should also be remembered that on one route, Gdansk, Wizz now have competition from Ryanair out of LBA. It is bound to have some impact on passenger numbers, if not actual movements.

It is nice to see that DSA has had a good year so far, but looking at Ceefax arrivals, it is beginning to look awfully quiet again now, and it will be worse still when EZY quit. I can see the winter figures being just as bad as last year's, which were boosted somewhat be a good few diverts whilst LBA was under a couple of feet of snow!