CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[752]

I suppose a few positives from this months CAA stats are;

LHR up 19% from 9738 to 11,593
BHD up 24% from 10,994 to 13,683
GLA up 6% from 891 to 946 (first rise in a while I think)
LCA up 23% from 4344 to 5343
CFU up 35% from 3294 to 4434
ZTH up 62% from 1085 to 1754
MLA up 40% from 3145 to 4404
AMS up 7% from 19,463 to 20,769 (larger aircraft)
FNC up 35% from 1394 to 1881
ACE up 10% from 8730 to 9795
CPH we had 559 (not sure on the loads)

 

[Aviador]

Indeed and the Heathrow figures are astounding, long may it continue.

 

[Seasider]

July figures don't make good reading: 403951 -3.6%; rolling year 3276246 +5.2%. With the question mark over Monarch's future at LBA, 2015could see a fair drop in pax.

 

[Aviador]

CAA Passengers Stats for July 2014

A total of 403,951 passengers used the airport during July, down -3.6% on the same month last year. Rolling year passenger totals stand at 3,276,246 up 5.2% year on year.

Comparisons with other airports for July 2014...

Leeds Bradford - down -3.6%
Doncaster Sheffield - up + 5.8%
East Midlands - up + 4%
Liverpool - down -7%
Manchester - up +6.2%
Birmingham - up 4.5%

Point to note, once again LBA handled more passengers than Liverpool during July despite Liverpool still handling over 4m passenger annually. This highlighting LBA's performance during the summer season, but also it's under performance during the winter season in comparison.

Sorry seasider.

 

[michael]

Had PIA still been making an appearance at LBA would the figures still have been down Aviador? (using last July's figures)

 

[Bigman]

What makes these figures even worse is the fact that this includes all the additional punters for the Tour de France.

 

[rmac]

On the other hand perhaps many stayed at home to see the Tour de France and will travel in August or September!

 

[Tarn Spotter]

The figures from the package holiday companies show actual sales in June and July were 7% down on 2013. As LBA is very much a bucket and spade airport, in addition Monarch reported last week that this years sales are down on last year, Jet2 has had a 20% off sale since England knocked out the world cup.
Whilst I accept other airports doing better, last year LBA growth far better then most other airports, this current downturn in passenger trafffic is likely to hit their figures harder then others.
Things must get worse, even if Monarch stays the new MD has stated losses so great overall on last years winters programme they must cancel all but the few routes that were profitable.

 

[lbaspotter]

The CAA's August 2014 Provisional Airport Statistics are now out but it looks like LBA are not included as yet. Haven't we concluded before that if LBA are late in reporting it normally means its not been a good month and that passengers figures are down?

Good news though as I've just checked the London Heathrow domestic stats and it would seem that British Airways had another good month. As they have listed 11,905 passenger been carried in August 2014 which is up +18% on the same month last years which was 10,058.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

The CAA's August 2014 Provisional Airport Statistics are now out but it looks like LBA are not included as yet. Haven't we concluded before that if LBA are late in reporting it normally means its not been a good month and that passengers figures are down?

No, I don't think that is necessarily the case. The figures might be disappointing - I don't know - but many years of checking these stats across all airports each month has led me to believe that there is little correlation between airports that aren't included in the first batch and their performance that month.

I've noted airports that have had an exceptionally good month but have still been listed in the later batches of stats published by the CAA.

 

[ridgeback]

Wait till you see the September figures for LHR-LBA...

 

[lbaspotter]

Wait till you see the September figures for LHR-LBA...

Oh god now you've got us wondering if thats a hint of good loads or a bad sign Ridgeback?
I hope it's not the latter as I can only judge by what I witness 2 weeks ago and it looked a good one to me!

 

[LBA787]

I'm very confident the September figures will be the best yet! The pax loads I've seen would suggest a very healthy monthly total.

:crazy:

 

[Bigman]

I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the Belfast City figures. We were up 8% to 14704. A significant achievement as far as I am concerned is that this figure is higher than East Midlands (14622), Edinburgh (14221) and Glasgow (14566). In fact only Birmingham and Manchester of all the regional airports did better than us which is of course no surprise. Well done FlyBe...keep up the good work. ER175's would be nice though at some point.

 

[dmrodgers]

I'm very confident the September figures will be the best yet! The pax loads I've seen would suggest a very healthy monthly total.

:crazy:

Without wanting to appear negative and being a 'downer' the other
airport over the hill carried 74,000 passengers last month down to Heathrow. How many of these I wonder are from Yorkshire? Its these people we should be targeting to make the route sustainable in the long term together with our loads.

 

[ChurchFenton]

Without wanting to appear negative and being a 'downer' the other
airport over the hill carried 74,000 passengers last month down to Heathrow. How many of these I wonder are from Yorkshire? Its these people we should be targeting to make the route sustainable in the long term together with our loads.

Whilst there's little doubt there will still be leakage of passengers on the route, I think the numbers carried from LBA now seem respectable when balanced up with the number of flights we have available and what are considered by many as sub-optimum departure times. How many flights per day do BA and VS offer combined from MAN to LHR compared LBA's three flights? The route is also still gaining familiarity, up against a well known, multi-frequency service which has operated uninterrupted for decades from MAN. If we also consider taking out of the equation the 'dead head' late evening departure from LBA then the average numbers per flight improve even further.

I flew up from LHR last Sunday evening to LBA and the flight was really busy, couldn't spot any empty seats from a quick glance, with lots of different nationalities seeming to be represented amongst passengers, so seems to be gathering a wide appeal. Whilst I have no insight into BA's yield management, at the very least we can say that passenger numbers on the route are heading in the right direction.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

I'm very confident the September figures will be the best yet! The pax loads I've seen would suggest a very healthy monthly total.

:crazy:

Not what my dad said when he flew with ZB to PMI last Thursday. Said that it was around half full. :whiteflag:

 

[Aviador]

In fairness we're getting to the end of the summer season now and the summer season for Majorca in particular finishes quite early. This is why the majority of operators don't serve the island going into the winter season.

 

[LBA787]

I'm very confident the September figures will be the best yet! The pax loads I've seen would suggest a very healthy monthly total.

:crazy:

Not what my dad said when he flew with ZB to PMI last Thursday. Said that it was around half full. :whiteflag:

My comment is in reference to the BA shuttle.

As for your dads ZB PMI flight Aviador is certainly correct about the summer season starting to slow down. Passenger loads to some of the Greek Islands and Spain are now noticeably easing outbound with PMI loads fluctuating between 90%+ and 50-60%. It's the same every year after the kids go back to school.

:crazy:

 

[ridgeback]

Church Fenton's observations are, as always, excellent.

Roll on September's CAA figs.