CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[forest1979]

Good results. Yes winter will be interesting but a few more year round this year with LBA and DUB should help...
Thanks again local for posting...

 

[TheLocalYokel]

November 2016

CAA stats now published and show that 20,736 passengers used the airport, up 54% on November 2015. Atms were up 35.6%. Rolling 12-month total was 362,212, up 44.8% on a year ago.

The winter continues the summer's impressive growth.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

December 2016

CAA stats now published and show that 20,977 passengers used the airport, up 62.1% on December 2015. Atms were up 32.1%. Rolling 12-month total was 370,247, up 47.9% on a year ago.

So 2016 as a whole saw passenger numbers rise by 47.9%. Very encouraging with 2017 looking very positive already.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

January 2017

CAA stats now published and show that 17,439 passengers used the airport, up 43.6% on January 2016. Atms were up 24%. Rolling 12-month total was 375,544, up 49.7% on a year ago.

The expected good start for 2017 and a continuation of the spectacular gains in 2016.

 

[forest1979]

Thanks for posting LY.. great start to the new year..

 

[News Guru]

The Independent is running a story on Newquay Airport saying it is currently the fastest growing airport in the UK in percentage terms. The paper claims the serge in passengers was due to the airport canceling it's Airport Development Fee.

Newquay Airport chairman, Tim Jeans has reportedly said "The development fee was a real deterrent for passengers"

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/travel...ure-tax-axed-domestic-uk-routes-a7561936.html

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I don't know the percentage of inbound passenger traffic but I'd imagine it might be higher than at many English regional airports.

Cornwall is a magnificent attraction for holidaymakers or even short stay tourists with both road and rail links from the major centres of the UK not good.

NQY handled 431,000 passengers in 2008 which had dropped to 166,000 in 2012, with the recession playing a major part as it did at most if not all UK regional airports. Since then the pick-up has been sustained through 2013 until 2016 with 2017 certain to continue the trend. Latest 12-month total is over 375,000 so the record in 2008 is getting ever nearer.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

February 2017

CAA stats now published show that 18,516 passengers passed through the terminal in February, a rise of 31.2% on February 2016.

The CAA has shown no rolling 12-month totals for February 2017 but, based on January's figures, the 12-month rolling total at the end of February this year was 379,952, up 50.56% on a year ago.

 

[forest1979]

Continued good results. I can see these up again in march and April with Ryan air starting early and some other services

 

[TheLocalYokel]

March 2017

CAA stats published today show that the airport handled 24,342 passengers in the month, up 31.1% on March 2016. Atms were up 16.9%. Running 12-month total was 385,730, up 51.4% on a year ago.

Should be through 400,000 in the near future.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

April 2017

CAA stats now published and show that the airport handled 41,551 passengers in the month, up 36.6% on April 2016. Atms were up 25.5%. Running 12-month total was 396,884, up 49.1% on a year ago.

That 400,000 barrier will be exceeded when May's figures are published. At this rate half a million could be on the cards within the next year or two.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

May 2017

CAA stats were published today and show that 46,368 passengers passed through the terminal in the month, up 22.6% on May 2016. Atms were up 12.5%. Rolling 12-month total was 405,424, up 44.9% on the same period last year, so as expected the 400,000 barrier has been breached.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

June 2017

Still rising (of course).

CAA shows 51,692 in June, up 22.1% on June 2016. Atms were up 15.9%. Rolling 12-month total was 414,769, up 41% on a year ago.

 

[superking]

For where Newquay is situated they doing very good with their pax numbers. Ryanair does a few routes out of there and flybe does some as well. Seems like flybe are the saviours of Newquay. Does the weekly german service still run in the summer. They must have hit Exeter pax numbers on some routes and also brs to a lesser extent.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

For where Newquay is situated they doing very good with their pax numbers. Ryanair does a few routes out of there and flybe does some as well. Seems like flybe are the saviours of Newquay. Does the weekly german service still run in the summer. They must have hit Exeter pax numbers on some routes and also brs to a lesser extent.

The Dusseldorf still operates with Eurowings once weekly. A not that well-known British author in this country, Rosamunde Pilcher, became a huge hit in Germany when her books were made into dramas for German television. They were set in Cornwall and German tv filmed a lot of their programmes in the county.

This encouraged even more Germans to visit Cornwall - it was already popular with German people - and the Pilcher effect seems to have continued over a number of years. Ryanair also operates to Hahn, their version of Frankfurt, as well as to Alicante and Faro in the summer.

Flybe (as you said) is the main carrier and the London routes (LGW, particularly, and STN) are responsible for about 40% of NQY's passengers each month. In May LGW saw 13,869 and STN 2,894 passengers which taken together represents around 40% of NQY's passenger numbers (41,551) for that month.

The new FR Faro route's 3,010 passengers added over 7% to the monthly figure in May and other routes have seen higher loads.

I doubt that NQY has caused many passengers to be lost at EXT or BRS both of which are growing themselves. Many of NQY's passengers seem to be newly generated and might not have used EXT or BRS had NQY not been available.

BRS would love NQY's runway; so would EXT for that matter.

 

[forest1979]

Good results.
Your right about Flybe, they carry 85% of all traffic out of the airport. Ryanair flights and Aer lingus both appear to have good passenger numbers. I did notice (but not sure) two arrivals on Saturday of the Hann service, am and pm arrivals. The flight however had the same flight number. The same showed on the departure boards at Hann.. anyone know anything about that. If it is two flights on one day, plus eurowings from Düsseldorf, I'd say the German inbound flight market is doing pretty well indeed. I know that Hann is a service that really want to succeed and work well.
Saturday arrivals board at Newquay this time of year doesn't look to shabby vs it's bigger neighbour Exeter..
I would also think that the Alicante and faro flights are attracting plymothians and folk from Exeter away from Bristol where there may be a shorter travel time.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I thought that the Hahn operated on Thursdays and Sundays. A check with the FR web booking engine shows once daily on those days in August.

I agree that some people from Devon and Cornwall will have switched from BRS to NQY on ALC and FAO but the point I was making was that in the overall scheme of things probably not that many, especially because of the far higher frequencies at BRS. It's remarkable how new routes seem to generate their own passengers who might not otherwise have flown at all.

When Vueling began at CWL in 2012 it was thought they would adversely impact on the BRS figures to ALC, PMI and AGP (the latter started a year later) but in fact BRS has risen from 244,000 in 2012 to 313,000 in 2016 on ALC, from 257,000 to 340,000 on PMI and from 275,000 to 337,000 on AGP.

The Vueling flights to ALC, PMI and AGP have seen strong load factors for the most part suggesting that many 'new' passengers have put in an appearance.

With FAO FR began twice weekly from both NQY and CWL this summer but checks from time to time with booking engines suggest that easyjet's 16 weekly Faro rotations and Ryanair's up to 10 weekly have still been showing very high loads, again suggesting that NQY and CWL have generated a huge number of new customers.

It's entirely likely that Mr Bloggs living in Plymouth or Mrs Smith in Bridgend will say to themselves, "I can't be bothered to get to Bristol to fly but I will go down the road to Newquay or to Cardiff", as the case may be.

 

[forest1979]

Apologies, might have been Sunday but sure it was two flights listed...

 

[cmj]

It's entirely likely that Mr Bloggs living in Plymouth or Mrs Smith in Bridgend will say to themselves, "I can't be bothered to get to Bristol to fly but I will go down the road to Newquay or to Cardiff", as the case may be.

Mr Bloggs in Plymouth, wondering what happened to the cities own airport.

 

[superking]

Sutton harbour which owned ply sold it for building,even so a group is trying to get it open again.Sutton harbour also owned air southwest doing flights out of ply,but they were sold to eastern airways which showed no interest in operations out of ply.