CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Samdorob]

surprised at Belfast little loss

I think it’s flat lined at the current frequency. Some double daily flights would certainly help there.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Here is my take on the CAA data for June.

 

[geoff]

Dublin is doing very well numbers wise, and Edinburgh 15% up, perhaps Loganair could be persuaded to change their mind.

 

[Jerry]

Dublin is doing very well numbers wise, and Edinburgh 15% up, perhaps Loganair could be persuaded to change their mind.

I somehow doubt they would be but in general things are positive.

 

[Scottie Dog]

The CAA has now released data for July and here is my interpretative of those figures. I have also produced a report showing the comparative figures for July since 2019.

 

[geoff]

Thanks Scottie. Nice to see Dublin up 72%, and Heraklion at 104%, Pity they are cutting Belfast in the New Year by a couple of flights for two months, and losing Edinburgh when they both had a rise in passenger numbers.

 

[Jerry]

Looking at the stats and this is a little breakdown by airline of Julys passenger numbers
TUI carried 72,318 passengers 59% of Julys passengers
Ryanair and Vueling carried 33,293 27% of Julys passengers
KLM carried 10,028 passengers 8% of Julys passengers
Aer Lingus carried 3888 passengers 3% of Julys passengers
Loganair carried 1494 passengers 1% of Julys passengers.

 

[Jerry]

CAA Stats for August 2025
Cardiff saw 123,785 passengers use the airport up 7% on 2024
Top 5 routes
1. Malaga 15383 +46%
2. Alicante 12586 -1%
3. Amsterdam 9722 +3%
4. Palma de Mallorca 9508
5. Dublin 9113 +68%

Belfast City 3653 -4%
Edinburgh 1557 +6%
Rolling year was 914,888

 

[Scottie Dog]

Courtesy of the CAA here is my take on August's statistics.

 

[MrFenner]

Are people falling out of love with Türkiye? Or is it simply that holidays there aren’t as cheap as they have been in decades gone by?

Mainly AYT (and certainly not confined to CWL by any means!) but it seems figures for Türkiye are down across the board…

 

[Jerry]

Are people falling out of love with Türkiye? Or is it simply that holidays there aren’t as cheap as they have been in decades gone by?

Mainly AYT (and certainly not confined to CWL by any means!) but it seems figures for Türkiye are down across the board…

There was less flights to Antalya this year. No Freebird.

 

[geoff]

What these figures show is that that the demand is there when they put extra flights on some of the most popular routes Heraklion, Dublin and Malaga, have shown exceptional percentage increases.

 

[Qing4theloo]

Good to see demand holding up for the Amsterdam flights. I expect a drop in September (from 2024) with all the shenanigans at Schipol. (Or was that earlier this month ...?)

 

[Jerry]

Good to see demand holding up for the Amsterdam flights. I expect a drop in September (from 2024) with all the shenanigans at Schipol. (Or was that earlier this month ...?)

There's always shenanigans at Schiphol sadly. It is frustrating that Cardiff is doing well on 2 daily and it makes me wonder what the numbers would be like at 3 daily. It's an average of 78 passengers per flight and that's not accounting for cancellations. If that average was maintained for a 3rd daily flight CWL would be looking at an extra 4800 passengers for the month of August with the route around the 14,000 passenger mark for August. I really do hope CWL can persuade KLM to resume the 3rd daily flight even if just for the summer.

 

[Scottie Dog]

As usual it is that time of the month for me to produce my usual statistical report. Any variation between the total monthly figures and those that I publish at https://forums4airports.com/threads/5728/page-3 (post #60) is purely due to differences in the CAA data in Tables 12.2 & 12.3

 

[Jerry]

Good to see continued growth!

 

[Scottie Dog]

With the CAA data now being available, here is my take on October's statistics. Please remember that, for an unknown reason, there is always a difference between the total passenger figure in Table 9 and the separate figures from Tables 12.1, 12.2 and 12.3.

 

[geoff]

Really good numbers to Cyprus, with a 105% rise, perhaps TUI could consider running Cyprus year round without the nearly 3 month break in the winter, also its nice to see DUBLIN still rising, is it time for a twice daily service once or twice a week?

 

[Jerry]

According to a post on Cardiff Airport Facebook page Cardiff Airport saw over 952,000 passengers use the airport in 2025 +8% on 2024.

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[geoff]

With a further two months figures to come, they will well make a Million passengers for 2025, although CWL's figures are slightly more than Scottie Dogs monthly summary.