CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[White Heather]

The figures provided at todays LBA JCC meeting show that the Year on Year passenger figures for June show an increase of just over 7.14%, which is the second highest in the UK. Only Belfast International saw a higher increase at the expense of Belfast City which saw a 10% drop. The worst performing airport of those listed was Doncaster Sheffield, which saw a 20% drop. Liverpool also dropped almost 15% and Durham Tees Valley is so far down it didn't even make it on to the graph.

The Rolling year figures for June show LBA at around a 0.2% increase, but LBA are pleased that the losses over the winter and April/May have been overturned in one successful month (June), putting the airport passenger growth back in the black.

It was confirmed that in terms of passenger numbers, summer 2013 will see 'significant growth'. There were hints that there is more in the pipeline from one LBA operator.

July figures show a growth of 2.23% over July 2011 with 369,657 pax passing through the terminal. The LBA total for the year (April - July) amounts to 1,242,357, a 0.64% increase on 2011 at the same stage. Considering the loss of several domestic routes, that is a positive outcome with the best months (traditionally) yet to come.

 

[wawkrk]

Not so long ago LBA handled more passengers than Liverpool, then LIverpool grew to 5m pax,now it seems the tide has reversed.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/ldp ... -31774136/

 

[lysander]

The interesting thing about LBA is that growth comes despite a few disadvantages...no motorway link, no rail link and, of course, it seems fairly prone to fog! Its advantages must be its fairly populous hinterland...and, a management which seems to know what it is doing...keeping both airlines and passengers happy!

The Peel Airports Group seems to have development interests other than commercial aviation.

 

[whoshotjimmi]

Liverpool's biggest problem is undoubtedly Easyjet, Flybe, Ryanair and Jet2 expansion at Manchester. Liverpool stole a march by getting the locos in first and taking a chunk of business away from MAN.

White Heather - Are there any figures available to show the proportion of inbound passengers? Or is this not possible?

 

[White Heather]

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whoshotjimmi

April 2012 - inbound 130,471, outbound 123,471
May 2012 - inbound 129,710, outbound 145,981
June 2012 - inbound 169,424, outbound 173,680
July 2012 - inbound 179,478, outbound 190,179

In 2011-12, the outbound passengers exceeded inbound in all months, so April was unusual from that point of view. A sign perhaps that the new routes are bringing more people to Yorkshire

Hope that helps

Heather

 

[whoshotjimmi]

Thanks for the info White Heather, interesting statistics.

However, the wording of my question was very poor. I was talking about inbound tourism and business. In other words, what is the proportion of pax using LBA as an entry point to the UK compared to the number of Brits using LBA as the departure point. Are figures published in such a way?

 

[White Heather]

Sorry whoshotimmi, no those figures are never provided. We only get the figures I have given.

 

[Bigman]

August stats just out. Up 5.3%. 386,275 for month, 2961831 for rolling year

For comparison:
Newcastle up 2.2%
Manchester up 1.8%
East Midlands down 2.1%
Teesside down 15.1%
Liverpool down 15.7%
Doncaster down 19.8%
Humberside down 23.4%

LBA best of the bunch again!!

 

[White Heather]

Excellent figures, so based on the 'signficant growth' for summer 2013, next August should be around the 400,000 mark, which will be a first I am sure.

 

[tleeds]

That is truly fantastic news for the airport!!

Load figures must have been pretty much full for all airlines to achieve such high passenger numbers!

:drinks:

 

[Aviador]

How frustrating, only a few thousand off three million. Will we ever pass it. :search:

 

[Seasider]

White Heather,
We may get the 400 000 pax before August 2013, it only needs just over 8% increase in July to reach this figure. With the expansion of Monarch, Jet 2, Thomson and BA (less Thomas Cook) that should be achievable.

 

[pug]

Surely the airport will handle well in excess of 400,000? Just with the extra capacity from MON, BA and TOM alone I would guess could generate an extra 600,000 ppa?

 

[Seasider]

Pug
I meant 400 000 pax in one month.

 

[pug]

Yes, sorry I should have been more clear.

With the extra capacity we already know about, it is not unreasonable to expect an extra 40,000+ for August 2013, which alone would take the airport well over the 400,000 figure for the month. This is considering the based aircraft from TOM, one based aircraft from MON (taking into account the loss of TCX) and the new BA flights to LHR. That of course doesnt allow for the capacity increases from the incumbent operators.

 

[Seasider]

CAA provisional figures for September 336907 +2.8%, rolling year 2970842 +0.6%.
November may be a quiet month but December should show an improvement with the British A/W and Monarch flights.

 

[lbaspotter]

CAA provisional figures for September 336907 +2.8%, rolling year 2970842 +0.6%.
November may be a quiet month but December should show an improvement with the British A/W and Monarch flights.

Bloody hell that's only 29,158 short of 3 million, surely that's the closest LBA has ever been to hitting the magic 3 million rolling year passenger figure?

 

[Aviador]

An interesting factor is the number of flights have reduced by -8.8% so that's more passengers with fewer flights. It might sound gloomy to have such a large percentage reduction in flights but the passenger gain more than makes up for it.

 

[White Heather]

Yes it may be disappointing to have fewer aircraft visiting LBA, but if those that do visit are full or nearly full, the airlines must be doing something right and are likely to be quite pleased. Another good month - shame November is always a poor month, but as already pointed out, things should look up considerably once we get the LHR and Ski flights up and running - particularly with the additional 2 Monarch flights over and above what we had last year.

 

[752]

Also Thomson operating SSH this winter, we will hopefull see a rise in passenegers.