CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Finger66]

Believe it was all due to capacity restrictions at AMS. From a pricing element we good do with competition on the route but think the damage may be done re AMS now. Been a few legal battles going on over in Holland. But we shall see

 

[YorkshireLad]

A very delayed roundup of the March 2023 passenger figures:

I have been busy this past 2-3 weeks and have had not enough time to fully compile the stats hence the delay

The good:

Alicante, Prague, Rome FCO and Tenerife all averaged over 95% loads which is absolutely amazing. All the Jet2 city flights performed very well including Reykjavik's one off charter with the lowest average load (Paris CDG) being 89.2%. Krakow continues to impress me with over 13,500 passengers (similar to Malaga and Lanzarote).

Wizz Air performed relatively strongly on most of their routes (especially Bucharest again).

Both new routes to Perpignan and Porto performed okay with 54% and 72% respectively Do bear in mind the first inbounds will have been essentially positioning flights. I do have more detailed information than just the average loads which influences my views compared to what they would have been.

The less good:

Wroclaw (72%): Not too bad, but not exactly great.

Belfast Intl (69.3%): The loads are seemingly just not great in the winter months on this route (especially on Wednesdays)

Overall a good outlook on loads with not many bad things to report.

Detailed figures by airline will be posted onto each airline's thread. If deemed necessary feel free to move them here. All work is my own (barring the CAA figures)

Ignore the last 2 lines - this took longer to create than the time I could edit it for

Detailed figures:

Aer Lingus:
Belfast City - 57 (79.1%)
Dublin - 38 (53.3%)
easyJet:
Belfast Intl - 118 (69.3%)

Jet2:
Alicante - 162 (98.4%)
Antalya - 154 (81.5%)
Barcelona - 140 (94.4%)
Budapest - 170 (94.3%)
Chambery - 163 (86%)
Dalaman - 111 (53%)
Dubrovnik - 54 (36.5%)
Faro - 136 (90%)
Fuerteventura - 178 (94.2%)
Funchal - 176 (93.3%)
Geneva - 126 (82.7%)
Gran Canaria - 177 (93.7%)
Krakow - 173 (91.3%)
Lanzarote - 183 (96.8%)
Larnaca - 105 (55.3%)
Malaga - 164 (93.1%)
Malta - 161 (85.3%)
Palma de Mallorca -129 (87.3%)
Paphos - 175 (92.7%)
Paris CDG - 132 (89.2%)
Prague - 141 (95.3%)
Rome FCO - 143 (96.5%)
Salzburg - 128 (86.5%)
Tenerife - 186 (98.3%)

KLM:
Amsterdam - 77 (80.3%)

Ryanair:
Alicante - 162 (84.8%)
Bratislava - 163 (86.5%)
Dublin - 155 (81.5%)
Faro - 172 (91%)
Fuerteventura - 172 (90.8%)
Gdansk - 165 (87.1%)
Ibiza - 43 (21.8%)
Krakow - 181 (95.8%)
Lanzarote - 156 (82.3%)
Malaga - 167 (88.4%)
Palma de Mallorca - 112 (58%)
Perpignan - 102 (54%)
Porto - 139 (71.8%)
Poznan - 165 (87%)
Riga - 178 (94.1%)
Tenerife - 165 (87.2%)
Vilnius - 179 (94.8%)
Warsaw Modlin - 164 (85.3%)
Wroclaw - 160 (84.7%)

Wizz Air:
Bucharest - 208 (90.8%)
Cluj Napoca - 174 (82.3%)
Gdansk - 172 (74.7%)
Katowice - 165 (78.1%)
Krakow - 174 (73.6%)
Warsaw Chopin - 193 (82.6%)
Wroclaw - 140 (60.9%)

 

[752]

I've seen else where FR are ending its MAN Katowice in Oct, hopefully can give our Wizz Katowice a boost (I know many will use KRK but every little helps). I do think if Wizz had better flight times, it would give a boost for UK outbound Pax. (Obviously catering for the inbound market)

 

[Seasider]

We are now 3 days over the release of April figures. They can't hit their targets when extended to 7 weeks.
Why can't we go back to the old system of 3/4 years ago when they published on the 16th of the following month.

 

[Aviador]

I've seen else where FR are ending its MAN Katowice in Oct, hopefully can give our Wizz Katowice a boost (I know many will use KRK but every little helps). I do think if Wizz had better flight times, it would give a boost for UK outbound Pax. (Obviously catering for the inbound market)

True but Wizz is one of the airlines Leeds was seeking to fill the quieter periods.

 

[752]

I know, but eating into the night slots.. isnt ideal. Hopefully mid morning rotations would/could be added

 

[White Heather]

I got the agenda for next week's Consultative Meeting today and obviously I'll provide a report next week. However, worthy of note having had a look at the passenger figures up to mid June is that for the 2023/4 year, the airport passed 1m passengers by mid June - just over 2 months into the year.

Also that from the first week in June all weekly passenger figures are once again exceeding 100,000.

 

[Finger66]

Wow. I know we have the quieter winter months to come later but that is some start to the year. Can't really be bothered with any maths or guestimates here but quickly that tells me 4m plus is likely to be achieved? Is that a good assumption?

 

[White Heather]

Wow. I know we have the quieter winter months to come later but that is some start to the year. Can't really be bothered with any maths or guestimates here but quickly that tells me 4m plus is likely to be achieved? Is that a good assumption?

Assuming the peak months are the same, that would suggest 2m by mid August, and probably 3m by the year end, so on target for 4m by the end of March 2024 .

 

[White Heather]

I will post a full weekly passenger breakdown for the fiscal year to date after next week's meeting and a comparison with last year's figures.

 

[Seasider]

I will post a full weekly passenger breakdown for the fiscal year to date after next week's meeting and a comparison with last year's figures.

Great!

 

[IanFarquharson]

April 2023 pax
HEATHROW	6,398,870​		up		25.93​	%
GATWICK	3,297,791​		up		18.78​	%
STANSTED	2,351,488​		up		16.35​	%
MANCHESTER	2,177,868​		up		15.38​	%
LUTON	1,402,365​		up		18.01​	%
EDINBURGH	1,198,258​		up		28.58​	%
BIRMINGHAM	858,919​		up		15.25​	%
BRISTOL	812,327​		up		23.85​	%
GLASGOW	590,851​		up		13.95​	%
BELFAST INT	540,744​		up		25.33​	%
LIVERPOOL	373,572​		up		17.14​	%
NEWCASTLE	366,331​		up		17.81​	%
EAST MIDLANDS	312,723​		up		25.57​	%
LEEDS BRADFORD	304,588​		up		20.97​	%
LONDON CITY	286,692​		up		11.19​	%
ABERDEEN	180,809​		up		10.02​	%
BELFAST CITY	170,172​		up		52.98​	%
JERSEY	128,377​		up		7.34​	%
INVERNESS	76,009​		up		18.38​	%
BOURNEMOUTH	64,013​		up		5.33​	%
SOUTHAMPTON	61,999​		up		28.74​	%
GUERNSEY	57,855​		up		1.16​	%
PRESTWICK	56,820​		up		20.43​	%
ISLE OF MAN	55,312​		up		12.43​	%
CARDIFF WALES	54,398​		up		0.12​	%
NEWQUAY	36,676​		up		94.84​	%
EXETER	32,116​		up		18.27​	%
NORWICH	22,910​		up		28.61​	%
SUMBURGH	20,786​		down		-0.29​	%
TEESSIDE	17,988​		up		26.53​	%
CITY OF DERRY (EGLINTON)	13,443​		up		4.94​	%
KIRKWALL	10,531​		up		-7.58​	%
HUMBERSIDE	9,128​		down		81.80​	%
STORNOWAY	7,416​		down		-11.82​	%
ISLES OF SCILLY (ST.MARYS)	6,059​		down		-38.25​	%
LANDS END (ST JUST)	5,055​		down		-25.03​	%
ALDERNEY	4,282​		up		5.08​	%
DUNDEE	3,398​		up		16.89​	%
SOUTHEND	2,860​		n/a		Null	%
BENBECULA	2,519​		up		6.38​	%
ISLAY	2,491​		up		17.56​	%
BARRA	1,184​		up		17.46​	%
TIREE	1,083​		up		17.72​	%
BLACKPOOL	1,042​		n/a		Null	%
WICK JOHN O GROATS	890​		up		70.50​	%
CAMPBELTOWN	517​		up		26.41​	%
LERWICK (TINGWALL)	232​		down		-23.18​	%
BIGGIN HILL	209​		down		-36.47​	%

 

[Finger66]

Are the above figures Vs April 2022 or Vs March 2023 please?

 

[IanFarquharson]

Are the above figures Vs April 2022 or Vs March 2023 please?

April 2023 v April 2022

 

[Finger66]

Thanks for the clarification Ian - appreciated

 

[Severn]

Here's the current '12-Month Rolling Total' of passenger numbers for NCL, LPL, LBA and EMA compared to the 2019 figures.

LBA has had a better recovery when comparing to the 2019 figures however the current terminal situation at LBA might mean that the other airports catch up in the next year or so:
- EMA with their large increase in their TUI base this year and next.
- LPL with their new Jet2 base opening next year.

 

[Stagman]

CAA April Aircraft Movements have been released.

Aircraft Movements:
2023: 2,825
2022: 2,683
2019: 2,803

Terminal Passengers:
2023: 304,588
2022: 251,780
2019: 318,006

 

[Finger66]

Interesting. 22 more aircraft movements in 2023 vs 2019 but 13.5k fewer pax

 

[YorkshireLad]

Interesting. 22 more aircraft movements in 2023 vs 2019 but 13.5k fewer pax

Do remember that we no longer have any more B757s and more B733s from our largest operator

 

[Ian Gratton]

Also a lot more biz movements this year which add to total but carry few passengers