CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[thunderchild]

Very early days so pretty hard to read much into it, but applying the average rolling 12 months growth to our 2016 pax numbers, this gives us a 2017 projection of 13,385,000 pax for 2017….

With the addition of four based Jet2 units plus BMI it could very well be more. Given AA is the only casualty of 2017 so far it's certainly looking good.

 

[Brum X]

What a great start to 2017 BHX, Keep up the good work.

Im looking forward to seeing the new airlines and routes.

 

[Barry Beeth]

There was a bit of a debate on another forum about why UA had chosen today to issue a press release about 20 years @ BHX and whatnot as there didn't seem any huge relevance, it's not the anniversary, etc.
I'm now sitting here idly wondering (hoping?) that it's "getting in first" before an announcement of a new service going westbound?
Drift. Sorry.

 

[Coathanger16]

There was a bit of a debate on another forum about why UA had chosen today to issue a press release about 20 years @ BHX and whatnot as there didn't seem any huge relevance, it's not the anniversary, etc.
I'm now sitting here idly wondering (hoping?) that it's "getting in first" before an announcement of a new service going westbound?
Drift. Sorry.

It certainly is a possibility. When American pulled out, PK was fairly optimistic about a new carrier taking their place.

On the other hand aviation (and everything in general really) tend to make a bigger deal out of anniversaries than they used to. Its now more celebrating the year of the anniversary rather than the actual date.

Fingers crossed though that it's a good sign.

 

[BHXsupporter]

Wow, the increase for Jan. 2017 over Jan. 2016 was 107,443. We must be heading for easily >13m this year. Well done BHX.

Has anyone seen a list of what improvements they're making at the moment please? I remember the heady days of those A5 airport update brochures showing such plans as the satellite circular building accessed by a sub-apron tunnel. Wish they still did that now! (when I have time I will try to upload one)

 

[Aviador]

This was posted in the local rag yesterday.

January was the busiest start to a year on record for the airport with a total of 775,176 passengers using the terminal - a rise of 16.1 per cent year on year.
Long-haul demand for seats was also up, growing by 29.5 per cent, while short haul also experienced growth, up by 13.4 per cent year-on-year.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/business/record-month-for-birmingham-airport-12597391

 

[BHXsupporter]

1 h 35' to Alicante? Concorde? 982 miles apparently.

 

[IanFarquharson]

DUBLIN 70,580 up 4.258682 %
DUBAI 68,307 up 19.38861 %
AMSTERDAM 46,787 up 9.82606 %
PARIS (CHARLES DE GAULLE) 31,012 up 6.761223 %
TENERIFE (SURREINA SOFIA) 30,998 up 18.21371 %
FRANKFURT MAIN 20,091 up 4.071484 %
DUSSELDORF 19,821 up 28.1254 %
ALICANTE 18,980 down -1.978 %
MALAGA 18,367 up 12.86794 %
GENEVA 17,249 up 8.627747 %
MUNICH 16,909 up 10.70447 %
BARCELONA 15,152 up 1.432588 %
ARRECIFE 14,854 down -15.2749 %
DOHA HAMAD 11,440 n/a 0 %
BRUSSELS 10,765 up 0.046468 %
FUERTEVENTURA 10,221 down -2.43414 %
FARO 8,800 up 10.77543 %
SOFIA 8,589 up 480.7302 %
MADRID 8,369 up 300.6223 %
LAS PALMAS 8,348 up 8.924843 %
ZURICH 8,141 up 10.8524 %
ISTANBUL 7,847 down -30.5391 %
BRIDGETOWN 7,658 down -8.47377 %
DELHI 7,223 down -36.8784 %
ISLAMABAD 6,886 up 6.875679 %
AMRITSAR 6,794 n/a 0 %
MONTEGO BAY 5,617 up 19.81655 %
COPENHAGEN 5,574 down -0.97708 %
MILAN (MALPENSA) 5,399 up 29.44138 %
BERLIN (TEGEL) 5,325 up 85.73422 %
CANCUN 5,297 up 8.146182 %
CORK 5,189 up 9.081354 %
NEW YORK (NEWARK) 5,088 down -0.72195 %
BYDGOSZCZ 4,806 up 1.008827 %
BRATISLAVA 4,765 up 2.804746 %
CHAMBERY 4,528 down -28.805 %
VERONA VILLAFRANCA 4,133 up 241.0066 %
WARSAW (MODLIN MASOVIA) 4,133 n/a 0 %
GRENOBLE 4,120 down -30.942 %
MALTA 4,092 up 50.82934 %
BUDAPEST 3,967 up 41.98282 %
KRAKOW 3,768 up 17.89737 %
TURIN 3,630 down -10.6352 %
FUNCHAL 3,607 up 1.291772 %
WARSAW (CHOPIN) 3,599 up 53.41006 %
STUTTGART 3,593 down -18.0616 %
INNSBRUCK 3,539 up 1.172098 %
ILHA DO SAL C.VERDE 3,536 up 121.8319 %
LARNACA 3,379 down -1.19883 %
LISBON 3,361 n/a 0 %
TOULOUSE (BLAGNAC) 3,350 up 117.9571 %
VILNIUS 3,287 n/a 0 %
PRAGUE 3,286 n/a 0 %
BUCHAREST (OTOPENI) 3,233 n/a 0 %
GDANSK 3,137 down -2.78897 %
KATOWICE 3,107 down -4.98471 %
KEFLAVIK 3,101 up 54.27861 %
ROME (FIUMICINO) 3,065 down -21.2892 %
HANOVER 3,033 up 2.500845 %
LYON 2,886 down -15.3417 %
DUBAI (WORLD CENTRAL) 2,809 n/a 0 %
ASHKHABAD 2,733 down -20.483 %
POZNAN 2,647 up 12.30378 %
MURCIA SAN JAVIER 2,618 n/a 0 %
WROCLAW 2,592 n/a 0 %
PALMA DE MALLORCA 2,425 down -16.3505 %
SHANNON 2,408 up 14.99522 %
SALZBURG 2,369 down -19.257 %
PUNTA CANA 2,317 n/a 0 %
BANJUL 2,168 up 35.33084 %
HURGHADA 2,125 up 33.4799 %
NEW YORK (JF KENNEDY) 1,656 down -50.1655 %
HAMBURG 1,623 up 2.916931 %
BOA VISTA (RABIL) 1,490 down -7.10723 %
MARRAKESH 1,440 n/a 0 %
LUXEMBOURG 1,297 n/a 0 %
IRELAND WEST(KNOCK) 1,235 n/a 0 %
PAPHOS 1,220 up 559.4595 %
PADERBORN 953 down -25.1375 %
GIBRALTAR 931 down -61.1273 %
NANTES 817 n/a 0 %
LIEIDA 593 down -28.5542 %
ROTTERDAM 562 n/a 0 %
BILBAO 370 n/a 0 %
GIRONA 312 n/a 0 %
PARMA 187 n/a 0 %
ANTALYA 157 down -48.3553 %
PARIS (ORLY) 56 n/a 0 %

 

[Ray Finkle]

Some good numbers there although Turkish are having a terrible time at the moment (BHX -31, MAN -32, EDI -33 and LGW -46).

It's good to see three long haul airlines in the top 20, along with Sofia and Madrid both of which were unserved not too long ago.

 

[Brum X]

I wish they would sort out the Air India figures. But i will not hold my breath.

 

[IanFarquharson]

BHX Domestic Pax Jan 17

Aberdeen 8,645 up 19%

Belfast City 17,013 up 18%

Belfast Int 19,430 up 6%

Edinburgh 17,961 down 7%

Glasgow 16,541 up 4%

Guernsey 2,659 up 15%

Isle of Man 2,721 up 19%

Inverness 2,527 down 16%

Jersey 2,629 up 6%

 

[Kevin Farnell]

I wish they would sort out the Air India figures. But i will not hold my breath.

Me too! It always makes the Birmingham - India figures look bad, when in fact there is substantial growth.
To get a true valuation, it's necessary to combine the Delhi and Amritsar figures and compare with the same combined figures from the previous year.
This seems to be the only route on which the CAA does this. Are they trying to belittle BHX's India connections? If so, why?

Kevin

 

[David_itl]

They aren't. The breakdown would have come from AI in that they are selling 2 destinations at BHX namely Delhi and Amritsar. To slant all the passengers onto 1 route may cause a few awkward questions as to why they are serving the other destination. Does BHX have any other routes where 1 airline operates to 2 destinations within the same country but operating on the same flight number?

For Turkish, it may also be a bit relevant to see the frequency drops alongside the passenger drops. 5 less flights a week at MAN or down 26%. The 32% drop doesn't seem that bad.

 

[Daza]

Turkish have also reduced BHX frequency due to events in Turkey, hence the drop in passenger numbers. Air India is doing amazingly well and showed a significant increase in passengers on January 2016 (+22.5%) with a LF of 88.7%. A real sucess story for Birmingham Airport. The figures prove that with an a 51/49% split between Delhi and Amritsar in January that its not just the British Sikh VFR traffic visiting Amritsar, as some commentators here and on other forums would have us believe, it's travellers/businessmen and women visiting the Indian capital and its onward connections too.
There are some great increases on those domestic routes too. On the downside Ski flights have had some light loads though snow has been a little thin on the ground in parts of Europe this season I beleive.
Daza

 

[Brum X]

Turkish have also reduced BHX frequency due to events in Turkey, hence the drop in passenger numbers. Air India is doing amazingly well and showed a significant increase in passengers on January 2016 (+22.5%) with a LF of 88.7%. A real sucess story for Birmingham Airport. The figures prove that with an a 51/49% split between Delhi and Amritsar in January that its not just the British Sikh VFR traffic visiting Amritsar, as some commentators here and on other forums would have us believe, it's travellers/businessmen and women visiting the Indian capital and its onward connections too.
There are some great increases on those domestic routes too. On the downside Ski flights have had some light loads though snow has been a little thin on the ground in parts of Europe this season I beleive.
Daza

Yes it does make me laugh when posters on other forums suggest BHX is lucky to have Air India becouse of our large VFR indian population. As you have pointed out a very successfull route all round.

 

[58terminus]

. Air India is doing amazingly well and showed a significant increase in passengers on January 2016 (+22.5%) with a LF of 88.7%

Load factors are always very interesting but recently do not seem to appear on forums as regularly as they used to if at all.
Am i looking in the wrong place or is it getting to complicated and time consuming for people to calculate?

 

[Daza]

Of course load factors are not the be-all and end-all it's what people are paying that counts but of course airlines keep this information close to their chests. So it's the only indication we as enthusiasts have as to how any route is performing. For me the most important thing is this flight is being used to connect to Delhi and not only VFR traffic for Amritsar. If load factors were the only indicator it suggests that separate DEL and ATQ could operate independently of each other and that maybe other Indian destinations such as BOM could work ex BHX.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Load factors are always very interesting but recently do not seem to appear on forums as regularly as they used to if at all.

Load factors are posted on my group - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bhxnews
First number is Jan 17 Pax then Jan 16 pax then pax per flight and finally load factor

INNSBRUCK 661 0 61 28.50%
SALZBURG 883 1046 110
ANTWERP 0 264
BRUSSELS 10765 10760
LARNACA 3379 3420 154 80%
COPENHAGEN 5574 5629 65 51%
CHAMBERY 505 801 63 54%
GRENOBLE 2087 3821
LYON 2886 3409 58 66%
NANTES 817 0 37 48%
PARIS (CDG) 31012 28963
TOULOUSE 2356 0 47 54%
BERLIN (TXL) 5325 2867 62 70%
DUSSELDORF 19821 15470
FRANKFURT 20091 19305 106 62%
HAMBURG 1623 1577 48 49%
HANOVER 3033 2959 52 60%
MUNICH 16510 15274
STUTTGART 3593 4385 78 89%
GIBRALTAR 931 2395 116 67%
CORK 5189 4757 51 71%
DUBLIN 70580 67584
KNOCK 1235 0 48 61%
SHANNON 2408 2094 46 64%
WATERFORD 0 545
MILAN (MXP) 5399 4171 61 70%
ROME (FCO) 3065 3894 139 69%
TURIN 987 1428 123
VERONA 2832 0 157 83%
LUXEMBOURG 1297 0 38 49%
MALTA 4092 2713 146 77%
AMSTERDAM 46787 42601
ROTTERDAM 562 0
FARO 7371 7914
LISBON 3361 0 120 64%
FUNCHAL 2061 2171 103 53%
ALICANTE 17010 17720
BARCELONA 14865 14490
MADRID 8369 2089 150 81%
MALAGA 16473 14492
MURCIA 2618 0 145 77%
PALMA 2425 2899 152 80%
ARRECIFE 9624 12523
FUERTEVENTURA 6854 6941
LAS PALMAS 5320 4940
TENERIFE 24740 19543
KEFLAVIK 3101 2010 141 74%
GENEVA 16141 14040
ZURICH 8141 7344 73 60%
ISTANBUL 7847 11132 101 64%
SOFIA 7218 0 139 75%
PRAGUE 3286 0 91 70%
BUDAPEST 3967 2794 198 86%
KAUNAS 0 2930
VILNIUS 3287 0 164 87%
BYDGOSZCZ 4806 4758 172 91%
GDANSK 3137 3227 157 83%
KATOWICE 3107 3270 173 91%
KRAKOW 3768 3196 171 91%
POZNAN 2647 2357 147 82%
WARSAW 3599 2346 180 78%
WARSAW (WMI) 4133 0 148 78%
WROCLAW 2592 0 144 80%
BUCHAREST (OTP) 3233 0
BRATISLAVA 4765 4635 159 84%
ASHKHABAD 2733 3437 98 63%
DOHA HAMAD 11440 0 185 73%
DUBAI 68307 57214 367 82%
AMRITSAR 6794 0 226 88%
DELHI 7223 11443
ISLAMABAD 6886 6443 191 54%
NEW YORK (JFK) 1656 3323 138 78%
NEW YORK (EWR) 5088 5125 121 72%

 

[Ray Finkle]

I had a look through the CAA Stats last night and noticed that Cluj is not included. It would have been nice to see how it did in it's first full month.

 

[58terminus]

Load factors are posted on my group - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bhxnews

Thank You