CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[lysander]

This is a significant improvement on the losses for year 2010... these amounted to £8,486,291. One suspects that financial restructuring and the removal of such high admin charges as DSA was being levied will have had much to do with the latest results.

 

[muddycoffee]

Just updated my table.. Shows a dissapointing August.

 

[pug]

Looks like its heading for its quietest full year to date, however with already announced slight capacity increases next year the negative growth should bottom out this year.

 

[Carnage]

Not sure about that.
The FlyBe flights for next year are down on this year, nothing announced from Ryanair or Wizz yet about their intentions next year.

Also, I wouldn't be confident of Thomas Cook operating all their flights, as has usually been the case.

 

[lysander]

October statistics reveal another bad set of passenger figures.At 66,970 they are down 22.7% and ,thus, the worst set of figures for an October...ever!

 

[Aviador]

Not good at all but it shouldn't be long before the figures bottom-out and the only way is up so long as there's no more major upsets.

 

[lysander]

If they bottom out at this level then DSA will be handling around 40% of the forecast number of passengers!

 

[Aviador]

CAA Passenger Statistics for January 2013

During January a total of 33,691 passengers used Doncaster Airport, down -12.7% on January 2012.

Rolling year passenger totals for Doncaster Airport stand at 688,240, down -16.4% on the previous twelve months.

 

[lysander]

The consensus would seem to be that the fall has now bottomed out...but without Thomson and Wizzair there isn't much else there!

 

[lysander]

No, it hasn't. February stats show only 29,211 pax. The lowest full month figure since opening.

 

[muddycoffee]

However, there were 9 flights in and out showing today, I've not seen that many at one time for months.

 

[lysander]

Wizzair increasing schedule now that the Mid-winter period is over....according to another site!

Nine flights is hardly a shattering schedule for an airport which has cost the taxpayer £millions in grants and is performing at only around 30% of what was estimated at the time the grants were awarded is it?

 

[News Guru]

[textarea]Passenger numbers nosedive at Doncaster Robin Hood airport

Passenger numbers at Doncaster Airport have plummeted - while other airports in the region fly high.

The Federation of Small Businesses is calling for a public inquiry for Sheffield’s City Airport to be reopened after being unimpressed with Robin Hood Airport’s passenger figures.

According to the Civil Aviation Authority, passenger numbers nosedived to 67,072 in May - a fall of 0.7 per cent compared with the same month last year.

The number of flights taking off also dipped in May, to 420 - 3.2 per cent lower than the same month last year.

And the year-end figures for 2012 show 693,000 passengers used the airport - down 16 per cent on 2011.

Full Story: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/ ... -1-5785658[/textarea]

 

[sprotyrover]

I had to listen to the chair of the Federation of small businesses (Sheffield) ramble on about how Donncaster Airport was dead in the water and why was it nothing was being done to get Sheffield it's own airport .he was put in his place by the presenter who also pointed out that Humbersides figures were even worse being 14 % down.
The bloke wasted one sentence on Doncaster and then rambled on about Sheffield Airport
Being sold to Peel for a Quid etc.

 

[pug]

I had to listen to the chair of the Federation of small businesses (Sheffield) ramble on about how Donncaster Airport was dead in the water and why was it nothing was being done to get Sheffield it's own airport .he was put in his place by the presenter who also pointed out that Humbersides figures were even worse being 14 % down.
The bloke wasted one sentence on Doncaster and then rambled on about Sheffield Airport
Being sold to Peel for a Quid etc.

People seem to be missing the point entirely. The whole point the FSB are trying to make is that there have been no lasting services aimed at the business market, these were catered for, and could be catered for at a reopened SZD. It's fair enough pointing out that HUY is down 14% on last May, but they have just announced a new business oriented route from another flag carrier to CPH... These services were promised when DSA was being touted for it's potential to be a major regional airport, and I seem to recall the FSB being fully supportive of the plans then.

It may well be that SZD is a non-starter, I certainly think it's gone now, but nobody can deny that selling the airport to an operator with a brand new investment 20 miles away, and for them to close it down, hardly provided definitive proof that the airport was not sustainable. What DSA will be doing now is relaying those negative views to the airlines, which may well work in their favour. Ultimately these debates keep the regional profile of DSA high, so to rule them out as pointless ramblings is in my opinion short sighted.

 

[lysander]

The FSB have every reason to question what is happening in the Sheffield City Region in so far as civil aviation is concerned. Comparisons with other airports is really quite pointless, except in this case , where it illustrates that DSA is suffering badly and has been doing so for at least 5 years. If the actuals are compared with the forecasts then they can be seen to be performing at less than 50% of even a revised forecast. DSA is currently, almost an irrelevance and it has failed to meet its initial promises...none of which, so far as the region's business community is concerned, has been fulfilled...despite the massive injections of public funding into the project.FARRRS cannot do it any harm but will it attract airlines? Passengers will use DSA if the Airport can attract airlines who offer a range of services at competitive prices

What is really interesting is that after all these years questions are still being asked about SCA's closure and a public enquiry into ALL the events, from as far back as 1988, is needed before the matter will ever be resolved.

Believe me it is about far more than runway length!

 

[muddycoffee]

Just spent 30 minutes reviving and updating my PAX table. I've been down the last two years to double check the updated pax data.

 

[lysander]

Still no sign of June 's figures being released yet.

 

[muddycoffee]

I'm guessing that the person who sends the numbers in is on holiday or something and they missed the publication date

 

[muddycoffee]

Just spent 30 minutes reviving and updating my PAX table. I've been down the last two years to double check the updated pax data.

This post is just a bump to get the table onto the new page
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