CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[White Heather]

Very true Local Yokel, LBA has had quite a drop in aircraft movements yet passenger numbers are holding up, so what flights are going, are clearly very well booked. If an airline can match their operations with demand, with little spare capacity they are going to be very happy I suspect and that appears to be what has been happening at LBA. It will be very interesting to see what happens next winter with Jet2 increasing capacity out of LBA and Monarch continuing to operate a based aircraft too - and Austrian returning on the Innsbruck route. There could be a substantial increase next winter compared to this.

 

[Seasider]

I don't want to "spoil the party" but I reckon they will have lost approx 10 000 pax this month due to the weather.

 

[White Heather]

You can probably add a few thousand more on today Seasider as the Easterly wind is blowing the snow back on to the runway, taxiways and apron as fast as they clear it. LBA has been snow closed again for the past 3 hours.

 

[Aviador]

Somebody mentioned there maybe upwards of 10,000 passengers on one of the days over the Easter weekend.

 

[lbaspotter]

The CAA provisional March 2013 passenger stats are out. http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=80&pagetype=88&sglid=11&fld=201303

I think I have read this right, so please do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

LBA handled 190,621 passengers in March 2013 which is an increase of 1.2% on the same month last year. The Year Rolling figure is up to 2,966,545. That's impressive when you consider that Air Traffic Movements's were down -11.4%.

The Heathrow route was just short of 10,000 pax with 9,996 been carried. Looks like Jet2 improved on the Belfast Int'l route as 5,240 were carried which is up 20% even with the cut backs been made to the schedule.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I think I have read this right, so please do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

LBA handled 190,621 passengers in March 2013 which is an increase of 1.2% on the same month last year. The Year Rolling figure is up to 2,966,545. That's impressive when you consider that Air Traffic Movements's were down -11.4%.

You've transposed one of the percentage figures but the effect is minimal.

The March 2013 passenger numbers were 190,621, as you say, but they were up 0.7% on March 2012, with atms down 11.4% (again as you say).

The rolling 12-month figure was your 2,966,545 which is 1.2 % up on the same 12-month period a year ago. Atms for the rolling 12-month period were down 8.1% compared with the previous 12 months.

So all in all it is an extremely creditable performance with both the monthly and annual passenger figures disproportionately high compared with the atms in both periods.

 

[ChurchFenton]

Very encouraging figures. Remember too that we had horrendous weather during March, with many days affected by diversions and cancellations due to fog and snow. The LHR passenger figures also took an additional knock due to a number of technical glitches with the small fleet of T1 based 319's.

April's figures will make very interesting reading, as weather has generally been good (only a handful of diversions so far) and the LHR service appears to be seeing vastly improved reliability since moving to T5.

 

[Bigman]

April figures are out and we increased by only 0.5%. Not brilliant but at least we did better than both LPL and EMA.

Heathrow figures dropped to 9726, which I make an average loading of 54 (assuming 180 rotations), but I cannot remember when we dropped to 3 flights a day so that might have impacted. I am sure someone will put me right on that one.

It is ironic that the Brussels actually went up from 1698 to 1769... a month before it was canned!!

Anyway, good to see that Dusseldorf went up 12.6%, so Jet2 seem to be benefiting from FR pulling off Weeze, but an increase of 546 was outweighed by a loss of 3140 on Weeze. Paris is on the up again by 3.1%. Glasgow went up 30% as well, and we had increases on the 'biggies' of Dublin, Palma, Tenerife, Alicante and Faro

 

[752]

Belfast City has a huge increase! it went from 7766 last year to 9811 a total of 26% increase! no wonder Flybe have put on an extra daily flight!

 

[eastcoaster]

Belfast City has a huge increase! it went from 7766 last year to 9811 a total of 26% increase! no wonder Flybe have put on an extra daily flight!

I think you will find the big increase on Belfast City was due to Belfast International being closed for a few days and their flights transferred to city.

 

[lbaspotter]

Heathrow figures dropped to 9726, which I make an average loading of 54 (assuming 180 rotations), but I cannot remember when we dropped to 3 flights a day so that might have impacted. I am sure someone will put me right on that one.

The British Airways Leeds/Bradford - London Heathrow shuttle route dropped to 3x daily SUN-FRI and 2x daily SAT commencing from the start of the summer timetable which was Sunday, March 31st 2013. I've just worked out by checking the daily logs that in April we had a total of 86x LHR-LBA & 86x LBA-LHR which works out at 172 rotations.

So judging by them figures you quoted Bigman I say there alright for a new route but they could be a whole lot better! And I would expect BA might be thinking the same or even expecting better than that by now...

 

[Tarn Spotter]

Did I miss the 3m passenger award when I was away, expected it when I left, something go wrong, or cant they count?

 

[Aviador]

Hi Tarn Spotter, Bigman posted the most recent figures on the previous page but here are the figures again with some regional comparisons.

CAA PAssenger Stats for April 2013

A total of 254,948 passengers used Leeds Bradford Airport during April 2013, only up 0.5% on April last year.

Rolling years passengers stand at 2,967,727 up 1.6% on the previous twelve months.

Not outstanding figures but reasonable in comparison with most of our regional counterparts.

Liverpool passenger total 369,829 down -5% during April. Rolling year passenger totals 4,291,968 down -15.2%
Doncaster Sheffield total 45,588 down -6.9% during April. Rolling year passenger totals 677,747 down -17.6%
East Midlands total 331,675 down -4% during April. Rolling year passenger totals 3,965,357 down -6.3%
Manchester total 1,523,297 up 3.6% during April. Rolling year passenger totals 19,843,902 up 3.5%

So May figures should see the airport comfortably pass the magic 3m barrier for the first time.

 

[User0001]

Passenger numbers would need to have been nearly 12% higher in May 13. Vs May 12 for the rolling number to get up to 3m. That's probably at the top end of expectations although the lates market did very well in the uk as a whole considering the poor weather. Personally I'd be trying to pass through the airport in the next couple of weeks if you want to bag the 3m prize

 

[Seasider]

I was hoping to get it week last Monday! :sad:

 

[White Heather]

Passenger numbers would need to have been nearly 12% higher in May 13. Vs May 12 for the rolling number to get up to 3m. That's probably at the top end of expectations although the lates market did very well in the uk as a whole considering the poor weather. Personally I'd be trying to pass through the airport in the next couple of weeks if you want to bag the 3m prize

I have today seen the passenger figures for May and to say I am suprised at them is an understatement. I can't divulge anything about the figures until after the next meeting on Thursday, so if you want to know how many pax used LBA in May and the breakdown, they should be here by the end of the week.

Sorry to make you guys wait - but the figures are on the agenda and I can't publish anything until after the meeting. Upon pain of death.

 

[Moo2009]

Must be bad news then

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Must be bad news then

I'm not so sure. 'Surprised' often indicates something pleasant, unlike 'shocked'.

 

[Aviador]

There were a couple of occasions over the bank holiday period when the number of outbound passengers peaked at around 8500 a day, bearing in mind the peak summer figure for last summer were in the region of 7400 departing passengers on a busy day. Passenger numbers have dropped off again since the bank holiday as you would expect but the numbers are still frequently higher than last year so I am going to go with between 15% and 25% increase overall. A complete guess mind you so I could be way off the mark.

 

[LBA787]

Im quite sure the figures will be pleasing on the eye!

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