CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Jerry]

CAA Stats for 2022
In 2022 the airport saw 859,805 passengers use the airport up 594% from 2021 (123,825). The airport saw 18,793 aircraft movements and 96 tonnes of freight.

Top 10 routes for 2022
1. Alicante 107,645
2. Palma de Mallorca 73,843
3. Tenerife South 72,194
4. Dublin 64,126
5. Malaga 63,102
6. Amsterdam 62,734
7. Arrecife (Lanzarote) 40,390
8. Faro 36,494
9. Corfu 24,779
10. Dalaman 24,223

UK and Ireland
Aberdeen 27
Belfast City 14,063
Belfast International 269
Birmingham 2
Bournemouth 108
Bristol 56
Cork 94
Dublin 64,126
East Midlands 47
Edinburgh 20,514
Glasgow 311
Humberside 149
Leeds Bradford 57
Liverpool 281
Manchester 290
Newcastle 198
Norwich 154
Shannon 266
Southampton 38
Teesside 70
Europe
Vienna 735
Brussels 400
Dubrovnik 8601
Larnaca 22,528
Paphos 19,833
Enontekio 569
Ivalo 431
Biarritz 39
Bordeaux 766
Brive 124
Grenoble 401
Lyon 1433
Marseille 597
Nantes 1008
Paris CDG 1401
Paris LBG 237
Paris Orly 19,570
Pau 127
Rennes 88
Toulouse 1463
Valence 354
Corfu 24,779
Heraklion 15,528
Kefallinia 6717
Kos 15,519
Nea Anchialos 106
Rhodes 17,551
Zakinthos 13,446
Bologna 80
Milan MXP 1648
Parma 338
Rome FCO 47
Treviso 85
Venice 329
Verona 44
Amsterdam 62,734
Groningen 143
Rotterdam 259
Faro 36,494
Funchal 135
Alicante 107,645
Ibiza 15,473
Mahon 15,382
Malaga 63,102
Murcia 90
Palma de Mallorca 73,843
Reus 6085
Arrecife 40,390
Las Palmas 16,228
Tenerife 72,194
Pajala Yllas 358
Zurich 107
Burgas 14,492
Prague 95
Warsaw Chopin 162
Wroclaw 434
Bucharest OTP 1770
International
Antalya 13,970
Dalaman 24,223
Istanbul 51
Trabzon 50
Enfidha 8862
Doha 1894
Doha International 745
Bridgetown 1766

 

[geoff]

It's good to see passenger numbers up 594%, over the previous disastrous year, but we still have along way to go. With a few routes now establishing year round services things will hopefully improve, I wonder what the load was like on the new FR Belfast service today?

 

[Jerry]

As a comparison this was the numbers for 2019

CAA Stats for 2019
Cardiff Wales Airport saw 1,656,085 passengers use the airport in 2019 up 5% on 2018.
The airport saw 1803 tonnes of freight pass through the airport up 24% on 2018.
Top 10 routes
1. Amsterdam 161,946
2. Alicante 116,001
3. Edinburgh 111,415
4. Palma de Mallorca 107,360
5. Malaga 103,341
6. Dublin 102,150
7. Tenerife South 95,628
8. Doha 90,679
9. Paris CDG 71,574
10. Belfast City 62,322

It's good to see passenger numbers up 594%, over the previous disastrous year, but we still have along way to go. With a few routes now establishing year round services things will hopefully improve, I wonder what the load was like on the new FR Belfast service today?

I saw a post that suggested the load was 80 too 90 on the inbound. Idk about the outbound.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Please find, slightly belatedly, the statistics for February:

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[geoff]

Thanks Scottie, nice to see another rise in numbers, February being one of the quietest months, the airport is heading back towards a million passengers a year, but still a long way to go.

 

[Scottie Dog]

My take on the CAA data can be found below, together with a comparison - for all airports - of March 2019-2023 at the following https://forums4airports.com/threads/5945/page-4#post-262488

Data for March taken from the CAA:

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[Scottie Dog]

Here is my take on the CAA data for April 2023. For some reason the CAA seem to have omitted Table 3 which contains Air Transport Movements and therefore I have had to leave that section blank. I have emailed the CAA for an explanation and, hopefully, I may receive a response at some time (my normal contact appears to have left).

The CAA has now published Table 3 and therefore this report is now complete.

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[geoff]

Thanks Scottie nice to see Amsterdam doing well, but surprised to see some of the most popular sun routes down a little, e.g. Alicante and Tenerife.

 

[Jerry]

Thanks Scottie nice to see Amsterdam doing well, but surprised to see some of the most popular sun routes down a little, e.g. Alicante and Tenerife.

Well Alicante and Tenerife have lost capacity from Wizz.

 

[Seasider]

Did Wizz Air actually operate them?

 

[Jerry]

Did Wizz Air actually operate them?

Yes Alicante 2 weekly Tenerife 3 weekly

 

[Scottie Dog]

I'm currently on holiday but will hopefully post statistics, from the CAA, when I return next week.

 

[Foxlimayankee]

I'm trying to get my head around May 23 vs May 22 figures mainly surrounding charter numbers. The below comparison is showing several routes with quite large drops in passenger numbers.
Did TUI do a later start to their holiday flights in May? The figures appear to be a shadow of passenger numbers on those routes in 2019.

Larnaca -399 passengers
Corfu -1249 passengers
Heraklion -1319 passengers
Kos -722 passengers
Zakynthos -1519 passengers
Ibiza -2075
Palma -2330 passengers
Reus -1132 passengers
Bourgas -693 passengers

Tenerife +472 passengers
Rhodes +786

One thing of significant note is the increase to AMS, but still a long way to go to reach the 13k levels of 2019.
Amsterdam + 3861.

Interestingly, even with FR going daily to DUB carrying 6604 passengers, in 2019 Flybe were carrying 8184 and 9192 in 2018.
Still a long way to go but the potential is there!

 

[Jerry]

Did TUI do a later start to their holiday flights in May?

I think they did with Burgas and Ibiza but i'm not sure about the others.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Regrettably the CAA has not published Air Transport Movements for Cardiff in May, however I have sent an email to them asking when this might be available. In the meantime here is my take on the data available.

For those interested in a comparison year on year, please see https://forums4airports.com/threads/5945/page-4

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[geoff]

Thanks Scottie, a disappointing month figures wise, WIZZ not operating is obviously having an affect, although it's nice to see Amsterdam doing well.

 

[MrFenner]

Those figures show that CWL is absolutely desperate for some low-cost carrier to take on the PMI route from summer 2024 as a priority I’d say!

 

[Scottie Dog]

The CAA has now updated Table 3 and I have therefore updated my records.

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[geoff]

Thanks Scottie, let's hope figures improve as the year goes on.

 

[Scottie Dog]

As some of you may be aware I have been going through a difficult time of recent and, as a result, my compilation of statistics has taken a bit of a back seat.

As soon as I am able to I will return with monthly data and in the meantime I would ask that you bear with me.

SD