CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[jason1-11]

432 to Aberdeen!

With the impending Loganair / Eastern battles at both MAN and MME, who would use the overpriced, unreliable offering from Leeds.

Maybe the day when Leeds has no services at all to Scotland might not be that far away unfortunately.

 

[lbaspotter]

432 to Aberdeen!

With the impending Loganair / Eastern battles at both MAN and MME, who would use the overpriced, unreliable offering from Leeds.

Maybe the day when Leeds has no services at all to Scotland might not be that far away unfortunately.

No hopefully that wont be the case!

I also noticed just recently that Eastern Airways figures for both the LBA-ABZ & LBA-SOU routes are a bit distorted due to them not including those transiting pax.

For some reason those pax travelling between ABZ & SOU get classed as a direct point to point even though they are onboard the aircraft when it stops at LBA.

 

[Aviador]

LBA sets weekly passenger record
Posted 29 August 2017

Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) has this summer welcomed more than 120,000 passengers in a week for the first time in its history.

This record was set during the week commencing August 7th; in the peak of summer holiday season. Last week, 14th – 20th August, saw 120,000 passengers travel through once again.

LBA has now welcomed two million passengers since April 1st this year; higher than the numbers recorded for the same period last year.

Read more: http://www.adsadvance.co.uk/lba-sets-weekly-passenger-record.html​

That's a fantastic achievement for the airport. It just goes to show what the airport is capable of. They just need to mirror this through the winter months now.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Really well done to LBA.

That is a hell of achievement probably helped by the growth of resident airline Jet2, and Ryanair helping with increased numbers of away based rotations.

Next Summer will probably see even more growth - with increased amount of Jet2 aircraft and hopefully that 4th based Ryanair aircraft.

 

[Tarn Spotter]

Just goes to show that a positive PR can lift the spirits.
A lot of the growth must be in bucket and spade destinations.
Last year (2016) malaga saw a 15.7% increase in passenger number (amazing if you consider 2015 was the first time they increased passenger numbers on 2007), these are this years monthly figures
July 2,187.116 + 11.2%
June 1,907.192 + 12.9%
May 1,809.418 + 11.2%
April 1,696.169 + 17.3%
March 1,199,855 + 9.4%
February 914,921 + 15.1%
January 867,382 + 18.4%
Likely to be an uplift of a third over the two years, I am sure you can do the same figures ofr Alicante, palma etc.
I have always called for LBA to maximise the bucket and spade established market rather then chase marginal new routes, LCC carriers by now should have located all the profitable European loacl routes.

 

[Seasider]

The figures for July are still not out yet on the CAA website and I can remember LBA a few years ago when there was a press release for the passengers with details of individual routes every month.
It is a good PR move at the moment when the figures are on the up.

 

[LeedsPilot]

With 2 weeks at 120k passengers or more, it would be surprising if August isn't LBA's first ever 500k+ month! If so, it would push the rolling 12 month total to over 3.9 million. With very little winter growth, the figures for November and December probably won't see too much of an increase, so I'm not sure we'll break the 4 million mark for 2017, but it's definitely on the cards!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats July 2017

503,195 passengers handled in the month, up 13.7% on July 2016. Atms up 11.4%.

Rolling 12-month total 3,915,817, up 11.6%.

 

[Aviador]

CAA stats July 2017

503,195 passengers handled in the month, up 13.7% on July 2016. Atms up 11.4%.

Rolling 12-month total 3,915,817, up 11.6%.

Phenomenal monthly figure. If only Leeds was handling that every month and it would be handling in the region of 6 million passengers per year.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Phenomenal monthly figure. If only Leeds was handling that every month and it would be handling in the region of 6 million passengers per year.

I would say Aviador, if LBA handled that many passengers in January then we would be handling nearly 8-9mppa per year with the Summer peak handling probably 1 million if not more in June, July, August and September.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I would say Aviador, if LBA handled that many passengers in January then we would be handling nearly 8-9mppa per year with the Summer peak handling probably 1 million if not more in June, July, August and September.

Bristol is currently 8.046 million for the 12-months to July with 473,000 in January this year and 852,000 in June and 874,000 in July. August might just reach 900,000 for the first time in a month. So your projection for LBA is pretty accurate.

 

[ChurchFenton]

First issue of CAA stats for Aug 17 just released. Not much on there yet for LBA, just the following:

Heathrow 15198 (+5%) - 3rd busiest month ever with BA (only Sept 15 and Sept 16 busier)
Glasgow 182 (-66% - ended during the month)
Guernsey 1742 (+8%)
Jersey 3756 (+11%)
Newquay 3131 (new - average 75 pax per flight)

 

[Seasider]

I remembered that the next update on the CAA website was 6 October. When checking, nothing has been added and on the header it says the next update is 13 October - 3 weeks last update, 6 weeks since end of August.

 

[White Heather]

I remembered that the next update on the CAA website was 6 October. When checking, nothing has been added and on the header it says the next update is 13 October - 3 weeks last update, 6 weeks since end of August.

The airport didn't provide any pax figures at the recent Consultative meeting either, and that was the 2nd time running they had not done so. They ALWAYS provided them previously over the 25 years or so that I have sat on the committee, so something has changed. I did ask where they were at the meeting and was told they were not yet ready for publication (August figures)

 

[White Heather]

Well at last I have obtained the passenger figure data from LBA today, for August AND September and the good news, in terms of growth, continues.

For August 2017, the total pax through LBA was 524,707, compared to 455,815 in August 2016. That is an increase of 15.11%.

For September 2017, the total pax was 464,222, compared to 410,159 for September 2016. That is an increase of 13.18%.

Total pax through LBA from April 2017 to 30 September 2017 (6 months) was 2,679,326 compared to 2,337,668 in 2016 - an increase of 14.62%.

If only LBA wasn't so summer orientated, we could be pushing 5m pax per year. As it stands though, less than 1.4m pax over the next 6 months will see LBA go through the 4m pax per year mark with ease.

 

[Bigman]

So based on a rolling total of 3,915,817 in July, an increase of 68,892 in August and an increase of 54,063 in September, that should make the rolling total 4,038,772. So we have hit 4M already. It will be interesting to see what impact the loss of Monarch has on the October figures.

 

[jason1-11]

The September BA figures should hopefully make interesting reading based on the fact that both myself and colleagues have witnessed almost full flights on quite a few occasions.

 

[KARFA]

The September BA figures should hopefully make interesting reading based on the fact that both myself and colleagues have witnessed almost full flights on quite a few occasions.

Load was 123 coming down to LHR just now. Although the BA A319 has 143 seats it usually has at least 5 rows of business so with blocked middle seats that means 123 out of 133 seats sold.

September always seems to be the busiest month of the year for this route. 16,928 to beat from 2016.

 

[lbaspotter]

Even though Wither Heather has already posted the actual totals she got supplied by the airport a few weeks ago the CAA have today released the provisional passenger stats for September 2017.

https://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-anal...atasets/UK-Airport-data/Airport-data-2017-09/

As is normal it would seem figures supplied by Leeds/Bradford are not included in the first issue along with Exeter, Gatwick, Inverness, Kirkwall, Luton, Southend, Stornoway and Sumburgh. The next expected update is due on November 17th

Here's some Domestic figures which have been supplied from other UK Airports.

London Heathrow = 16,142 (-5%)
Aberdeen = 409 (+6%)
Belfast City = 14,084 (+3%)
Guernsey = 1,429 (+9%)
Jersey = 2,898 (+13%)
Newquay = 3,015

 

[White Heather]

A reduction on LHR, in September, which is traditionally the routes strongest month, seems odd.