CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[dmrodgers]

Mind blowing figures for LBA. Lets hope the trend continues throughout the year and encourage other airlines to look at expanding into LBA to set up routes not already covered by Jet2 and Ryanair.

 

[tleeds]

This is probably one of the key reasons why TCX, through its economic problems has stayed at LBA!
Fantastic figures anyhow, Summer, I think we can all guess, could be a very busy period.

 

[Bigman]

We actually saw the biggest increase of any airport listed so far, namely 44.2%. Am I not right in thinking that the rolling total is a new record?

 

[Aviador]

CAA Passenger Stats for April 2011

A total of 265,735 passengers passed through Leeds Bradford airport during April, 44.2% up on the same month last year.

Rolling year passenger numbers stand at 2,879,658 14.4% up year on year.

How Leeds Bradford compares with other airports around the UK...

LHR - 67,512,888
LGW - 32,344,249
STN - 18,630,496
MAN - 18,070,637
LTN - 9,023,491
EDI - 8,979,947
BHX - 8,659,838
GLA - 6,691,058
BRS - N/A
LPL - 5,068,417
NCL - 4,389,211
EMA - 4,114,850
BFS - 4,031,482
LBA - 2,879,658
ABZ - 2,871,305
LCY - 2,831,591
SOU - 1,737,534
PIK - 1,549,242
CWL - 1,362,580
GCI - 903,176
DSA - 878,302
BOH - 701,195
IOM - 682,504
HUY - 289,633
BLK - 240,936
DTV - 237,318

 

[radar]

Am I not right in thinking that the rolling total is a new record?

No, not just yet. The YTD figure was higher than 2.88m between July and November of 2008. The highest it's ever been was 2.914m in August of 2008, which isn't much more than now so give it a month or two.

 

[Bigman]

Cheers Radar. I am sure we will break the record in the next 2-3 months.

 

[wawkrk]

Just over 2 million more than DSA and Thomson are still not interested.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

TOM'S loss,
LS, FR & TCX'S gain!

However will the movement & passenger figures for this year top that of the year 2007 where they had 2,881,539 pax, and 39,603 movements! (movements include Private Jet, Position flights?)

 

[tleeds]

I think that airlines are trying to improve their loads on each individual flight, and in doing so are actually reducing the amount of aircraft movements at an airport. LBA has seen a fall in movements but a rise in passengers, leading to higher loads per flight. Jet2's load factor is certainly improving, year on year, since they started operations.
I am surprised that Thomson aren't looking at improving their operations at LBA but as people have said they basically run DSA and will get a great deal at DSA - Landing fee's etc.

 

[lbaspotter]

Well LBA now has a big jump to reach the 13th largest airport Belfast International which is seeing 4,031,482 passengers a year currently. Thats nearly 1.2 million extra passengers to find.

How they hell do we expect LBA/Bridgepoint to do that when it keeps losing routes like it has recently and mybe about to lose yet another soon??

 

[jason1-11]

Not to be a party pooper, but we did have the ash cloud back in April 2010 so the figures will be slightly off, but a great performance nevertheless.

 

[wawkrk]

Hi Jason, just about all UK airports were also affected by the ash cloud. Impressive figures non the less.

 

[White Heather]

Those are truly remarkable figures, and could indicate an exceptional summer, provided bookings are good generally.

 

[User0001]

I think May will suffer a little. For a lot of people, it was possible to take a few days holiday entitlement from work and end up with the chance for an 11 day break. That proved tempting and therefore brought some of the traffic that would have departed in early May forward into April.
One of the weekend departures to Faro with Ryanair went with just 58 passengers in early May and a Malaga with just over 100 on the same weekend. Typically, you would be looking at 150+ on those weekend sectors.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Think may will suffer upto next thursday! Once then it'll pick up from thursday-sunday then drop off again till late June.

 

[White Heather]

Lets not forget though that the ash cloud badly affected May last year, not just April. I know as I was flying to Canada on the 13th and it was touch and go whether I would or not. Even on the 13th, my flight was re-routed around ash, and whilst I was in Canada, the ash came back and closed airports, including LBA again for a day or two. Based on that I would be very surprised if May didn't show a sizeable % increase again over 2010, particularly with TOM having upgraded their aircraft this summer.

 

[User0001]

True, I forgot about that. According to lbaspotters daily logs from 2010, the airport closed at 13:00 on Sunday 16th May but reopened at 01:00 on the morning of the 17th.

 

[tleeds]

After this summer we should easily reach 3million passengers, then hopefully once the new terminal has been re-developed there will be more room to handle a lot more passengers. Once the whole terminal has had it's 'face-lift' and the extension is eventually built we should have no problem catching Belfast up.

 

[Aviador]

After this summer we should easily reach 3million passengers, then hopefully once the new terminal has been re-developed there will be more room to handle a lot more passengers. Once the whole terminal has had it's 'face-lift' and the extension is eventually built we should have no problem catching Belfast up.

I love your optimism tomleeds. It's a fallacy that an airport with a bigger terminal equals millions of extra passengers. It's a bit like DSA claiming it will gain scheduled flights to America on the back of having a long runway. It doesn't work like that.

Clearly LBA will be in a much better position to handle more flights once all the terminal work is completed. Even before the main external work has been carried out the airport capacity will have increased with the work that is to be carried out this winter. So this means summer 2012 will see a significant increase in capacity so hopefully airlines will seek to capitalise on this.

 

[markietg]

When will May's pax numbers be out? Must be soon?