CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[TheLocalYokel]

alphagolf

I've asked around amongst those who would know and it seems there were more Ryanair rotations cancelled in May to such places as Beziers, Bergerac, Treviso and others which will explain the otherwise lowish load factors on some routes.

It seems to have been a commercial decision and apparenbtly for the same reason a check of the booking engine for August will show additional rotations on a number of routes, eg Alicante up from 4 to 8, Beziers 4 to 5, Palma 7 to 8. There may be others - I didn't check them all.

Given the Ryanair reductions BRS did well to increase its May passenger figures by nearly 2%.

 

[alphagolf]

CAA not reported for Bristol yet!

Bristol Airport have published their own stats for June, mighty fine reading they make too!

June 2012
Pax: 604,550
UP: 6.89%

Movements: 5,685
DOWN: 11.83%

January to June:
Pax: 2,708,166
UP: 2.54%

Movement: 30,649
DOWN: 6.85%

Absolutely outstanding performance when you take into effect the reduction in movements, neary a 12% reduction with nearly 7% increase in passengers!

Superb set of results for June! Long may it continue. :s_thumbsup

alpahgolf

 

[TheLocalYokel]

June 2012 passenger figures

April, May and June have been seen the highest passenger figures for these months in the airport's history except for 2008.

2008 was the year the airport saw nearly 6.3 million passengers and there were many more air transport movements. In fact, the last three years have seen continuing falls in atms against annual rises in passenger numbers.

There will come a time when this will need to be reversed as the passenger numbers cannot go on rising against falling atms.

I heard the end of an interview with James Gore, the airport's press man, on Radio Bristol this morning in which he outlined rising passenger figures this summer.

The interviewer inevitably asked about an Olympics factor which JG rightly said had very little impact in June.

He also said that the Luthuanian Olympic team had arrived through BRS in the past few days. I'm not sure how big that team is. Presumably they came with Ryanair unless there was a special charter.

I agree with alphagolf that these are very good figures.

 

[alphagolf]

Looking at the CAA statistics, there seems to be no figures for the BRS to GCI route!

Seems a litte odd, I think there were some weather related cancellations in June, but I can't believe that not one flight operated for the month!

Answers on a postcard please!

alphagolf

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Looking at the CAA statistics, there seems to be no figures for the BRS to GCI route!

Seems a litte odd, I think there were some weather related cancellations in June, but I can't believe that not one flight operated for the month!

I noticed that too. I never believe that CAA stats are 100 per cent accurate. For a start they differ from the airport's own stats every month.

BRS had a weekly ski flight to a new destination (for it) to Lleida Alguaire Airport in the season operated by Flybe for the tour company, but no figures appeared for this route in January's CAA stats, though they did for February and March.

I've checked a stored copy of Mayfly for January and the flight was certainly down to operate that month.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats July 2012

655,095 passengers were handled, up 4.8% on July 2011. Atms were down 2.3%, a continuation of the trend that has seen higher passenger numbers from fewer flights each month.

Rolling 12-month total was 5,860,824, up 1.6% on a year ago.

This is the best ever July, beating the record-breaking 2008 (when 6.228 million passengers used the airport) by 3,000.

April, May and June were the second highest ever for those months, beaten only by 2008.

The difference between now and 2008 is the winter.

The likes of easyJet and Ryanair used to operate more flights in winter than they do now, otherwise BRS would be heading back to and possibly over 6 mppa this year.

As it is the final total will likely be in the region of 5.8-5.9 mppa.

It' still good news though.

 

[Aviador]

That irritating and persisting problem of not having enough traffic through the winter months. This is unlikely to change until the economy gets better when airlines are more prepared to take risks running less dense routes through the winter months.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

That irritating and persisting problem of not having enough traffic through the winter months. This is unlikely to change until the economy gets better when airlines are more prepared to take risks running less dense routes through the winter months.

I was told by someone who would know that easyJet will have an increased presence this winter over last (around 6%).

Incidentally, Guernsey hasn't appeared on the CAA stats again this month. It's certainly been operating. The same thing occurred in June's provisional stats and has been carried forward into the final stats for June.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Bristol Airport has now issued a press release confirming that July 2012 is the best ever July for passenger numbers. As usual the airport's figures vary slightly from the CAA's.

Interesting that Shaun Browne, the Aviation Director, has also mentioned that the winter will be 'more challenging', following my recent conversation with Aviador in this thread.

[textarea]Passenger numbers at Bristol Airport topped 650,000 last month, making it the busiest July on record.

The number of people passing through the terminal was up 5.1 per cent year on year, and surpassed the previous July high recorded back in 2008.

Shaun Browne, Aviation Director at Bristol Airport, said:
“High passenger volumes have been driven by the strong performance of easyJet services and the popularity of the holidays offered by tour operators Tui and Thomas Cook. But it is not all one way traffic – figures for the first quarter show that around one in five passengers using Bristol Airport is an inbound visitor from overseas. Demand from business and leisure travellers also remained strong during the Olympics.”

This increase followed a 6.9 per cent year on year increase in passengers in June, meaning a total of over 1.2 million people used the Airport over the two month period. During this time security processing times have seen significant improvements as a result of the introduction of two new x-ray channels, and a second immigration point is now in use, easing congestion in the international arrivals area.

Once again, the rise in passengers was achieved with fewer flights as the total number of aircraft movements fell by 7.4 per cent as a result of airlines operating with high load factors on larger aircraft.

Shaun Browne added:
“It has been an encouraging summer so far and, while we know winter will be more challenging, we are pleased that new services to Copenhagen and Warsaw will commence in the next couple of months, and that Ryanair has extended its services to Barcelona Reus and Knock (Ireland West) to operate year-round.”[/textarea]
http://www.bristolairport.co.uk/media-c ... gures.aspx

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats August 2012

676,265 passengers passed through the terminal in August, up 0.5% on August 2011. Atms were down 4.2%

Rolling 12-month total was 5,864,127, up 1.9% on a year ago.

Slightly disappointing figures given the strong performance so far this summer.

Yet again atms were down so a rise in passenger numbers is still good going. I had expected somewhere between 690,000 and 700,000 passengers in August, based on the summer to date.

Perhaps this is a sign that the continuing fall in atms against rising passenger numbers (this has been BRS's position for several years now)has reached the point where atms must increase if passenger numbers are to continue to rise.

 

[alphagolf]

I think this was to be expected with the Olympics and Paralympics, I think that Spetember may be another good month as those who waited for the sports events to finish may have delayed their trip!

On the CAA stats, again no figures for Guernsey, thats 3 months in a row now we have had no figures! I am quite sure the route has been operating so why no figures, anyone got any ideas?

alphagolf

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I think this was to be expected with the Olympics and Paralympics, I think that Spetember may be another good month as those who waited for the sports events to finish may have delayed their trip!

On the CAA stats, again no figures for Guernsey, thats 3 months in a row now we have had no figures! I am quite sure the route has been operating so why no figures, anyone got any ideas?

alphagolf

You may well be right about the Olympics having an effect on the figures though some regional airports enjoyed quite substantial rises, albeit in some cases though not all on the back of significant additional atms.

The Aurigny Guernsey route has certainly been operating all summer long. I've no idea why it's not been shown on the CAA stats in recent months, either on the provisional stats or the full stats (which are rarely different from the provisional in most cases).

The Helvetic was also slightly disappointing - 903 passengers against CWL's 612. This is CWL's best monthly performance versus BRS and BRS was actually down on its July total though possibly here the reason may be that business passengers are often less in evidence in August.

 

[alphagolf]

I have found the missing Guernsey figures, they are recorded under Domestic Route Anaylisis by Reporting airport in the previous CAA Stats, but they are 2 months behind, so should get August's figure once September's are published on 15th October!

Looking at Domestic Pax for the year only January's total was lower than 2011, so a positive year for the domestic routes on a whole from Bristol.

alphagolf

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I have found the missing Guernsey figures, they are recorded under Domestic Route Anaylisis by Reporting airport in the previous CAA Stats, but they are 2 months behind, so should get August's figure once September's are published on 15th October!

Thanks alphagolf.

That's a bit odd, isn't it?

 

[alphagolf]

That's a bit odd, isn't it?

It does seem a bit odd, in Bristol's stats, Guernsey shows no pax, but in Guernsey's list of routes, it shows Bristol with pax.

Something strange going on me thinks.............

alphagolf

 

[TheLocalYokel]

It's odder at every turn, alphagolf.

Are you expecting a slight increase or slight decrease in September's passenger figures bearing in mind that 2011 was the best September in the airport's history?

Interesting hints from conns757 in the BRS Thomas Cook thread recently about positive news to come and not only re Thomas Cook.

 

[alphagolf]

Are you expecting a slight increase or slight decrease in September's passenger figures bearing in mind that 2011 was the best September in the airport's history?

I think it would be hard to beat September 2011, but I could be proved wrong.

Domestic seems to be holding up well this year compared to last and a substantial amount of international routes are performing well, but my gut feeling would be a slight fall.

Soon find out tomorrow.............

Reference TCX, I have tried some test bookings for Summer 2013 and have come up with 27 flights operated by TCX, with others operated by easyjet, Air Malta and the normal Thomson.............................. :s_dunno

alphagolf

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I think it would be hard to beat September 2011, but I could be proved wrong.

Domestic seems to be holding up well this year compared to last and a substantial amount of international routes are performing well, but my gut feeling would be a slight fall.

Soon find out tomorrow.............

Reference TCX, I have tried some test bookings for Summer 2013 and have come up with 27 flights operated by TCX, with others operated by easyjet, Air Malta and the normal Thomson............................

September has held up pretty well leading into and through the recession:

2007 592,000
2008 608,000
2009 592,000
2010 608,000
2011 619,000

These are the CAA stats rounded up or down to the nearest thousand - for some reason BRS's own seem to be at odds with the CAA each month by a couple of thousand or so, usually less than the CAA's.

I'm glad you ploughed on a bit further than me with the TCX stuff. Did you find it a long-winded process or is there a quick way?

conns757 pointed me one way but I may have misread him because I didn't find the process much quicker.

On this basis it seems the 2-aircraft base will be retained next summer despite previous reports elsewhere that one of the 320s is to be removed.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA Stats September 2012

Close-run thing but BRS was up 0.4% on last years's record September. 619,997 passengers were handled in the month. As usual atms were down - by 5.8% this month - showing the continuing trend from BRS in recent years of slightly increased passenger numbers from fewer atms.

Rolling 12-mont total was 5,866,309, up 1.8% on a year ago.

 

[Aviador]

Caa Passenger Statistics for October 2012

A total of 549,603 passengers used the airport during October that's +3.2% compared with the same month last year.

Rolling years passenger totals stand at 5,883,378, up 2.4% compared with the previous twelve months.

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