CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Seasider]

Pax 180511 to be precise.

 

[louis_walton]

I wonder what caused the increase after the BA reductions and there were no major differences to services. Maybe more customers are using the airport at the moment.

 

[AirBingley]

Perhaps fewer diverts this year as last winter in general was a lot more severe?

 

[ChurchFenton]

February CAA stats show LBA at 196,953 for the month, a small drop of -0.5%.

 

[oldendays]

To Hell with the golfers, cyclists and snowboard gang with their stupidly heavy and cumbersome equipment. We deal with enough of their sort as it is. Please don't encourage them.

 

[louis_walton]

Golfers and snowboarder actually bring a large amount of pax and make the airport a lot of money. They often book in the lounges, pay for extra luggage, priority boarding etc which is all great income. Golfers also often book with Jet2’s Indulgent Escapes which is very upmarket and makes them a good amount of money!

 

[mullion]

I don`t fit any of those sports BUT having worked in travel industry I know just how much money they
bring into the industry, golfers and ski/snowborders are very important markets and tend to be high spenders
and after all what would the like of Jet2/Tui and TCX do in the winter

 

[Seasider]

March 2019 pax stats are on the CAA website - 246550 +9% on last year.

 

[airforced]

March 2019 pax stats are on the CAA website - 246550 +9% on last year.

That is excellent. A 9% increase in what is 'out of season' for LBA and during the uncertain times we are in due to the B word is not to be sneezed at.

 

[AirBingley]

Encouragingly LHR grew by 5% too despite there being 88 movements versus planned 114 in 2018 (it went to twice per day and once on a Saturday last March with the cancellations). So per sector flown we're at 97 pax per sector instead of 71 a whopping 36% rise per sector. Assuming 133 seats available for sale the LF rises to 73% which isn't too bad given the timing of Easter.

 

[Seasider]

Let's not get too excited. I have just been adding these figures to the spreadsheet I keep and it is still 1000 less than March 2017. Wasn't the "Beast from the East" in March last year?

 

[Tarn Spotter]

Easter Sunday was the 1st April last year, so March 2018 figures would have had all the outward Easter traffic, Easter late this year so no March traffic.
In addition 13.6% less flights this March, so better loads overall, not sure when you take less flights and Easter in to account how we did 9% better.
In theory April should be good as all 2019 easter against only 50% 2018, not sure the figures make sense, lets hope they are correct.

 

[Finger66]

If both March and April finish being up then probably slightly irrelevant when Easter fell in 2018. However yes there was the beast from the east last March. I think any airport would put any positive spin on a 9% increase regardless of reasons. And if fewer flights with better LFs then let's hope the yield is there to match. Then we shouldn't lose anything else, and dare I risk saying this, could this encourage some route expansion...........

 

[Seasider]

April pax figures are on the CAA website - 318006 up 6%.

 

[AirBingley]

Had a quick look at some of the routes we often talk about and LHR up to 8,608 on 86 movements so that gives a LF of 75% (based on 133 seats). DUS showing 2,911 passengers on 52 rotations which is 56 per sector so a LF of 72%. I can't quite remember how many NQY rotations there would have been but only 1,618 passengers flew it and this was down slightly. At a guesstimate of 26 sectors flown it still gives 62 passengers per sector. Southampton down possibly because of the later Easter (and were there still not 3 per day this time last year?) averaging 23 per sector so this looks a little tight on a 50 seater.

 

[oldendays]

Southampton is on a 29 seat aircraft today. J41 MAJZ is with us.

 

[LBA8098]

Was operated by a J41 yesterday too. Clearly loads not too good

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats May 2019

Have been published today and show that 392,584 passengers were handled in the month, up 0.9% on May 2018. Atms were down 5.1%. Rolling 12-month total was 4,082,571, up 1.8% on a year ago.

 

[White Heather]

CAA stats May 2019

Have been published today and show that 392,584 passengers were handled in the month, up 0.9% on May 2018. Atms were down 5.1%. Rolling 12-month total was 4,082,571, up 1.8% on a year ago.

Thanks Local Yokel. Another increase in pax from less movements would indicate that what we have, is doing better loads, so good news. We seem to have had quite a few increases so far this year, some pretty good, some small.

 

[LBA8098]

Flew out on BE732 LBA BHD earlier today. 76 pax on board totally full). !