Passenger Figures

[News Guru]

[textarea]Passengers up 5.3% at Southampton Airport

The number of passengers using Southampton Airport were up 5.3% last month compared to a year earlier. Together with Heathrow - which was up by just 0.4 per cent - it was the only BAA airport to show growth in March.

BAA blamed the BA cabin crew strikes, the weather, an early Easter and (in Scotland in particular) the loss of flights from failed airline Flyglobespan for the poor numbers. In the year to the end of Match passengers were down 5.1% (1.8m) at Southampton Airport.

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[TheLocalYokel]

July 2010

CAA stats show that 187,703 passengers were handled, down 1.3% on July 2010. Atms were up 1.9%.

Rolling 12-month total is 1,763,623, down 3.2% on a year ago.

SOU did much better in the recession than its neighbour at Bournemouth and is showing signs of righting a ship that had not taken on too much water.

Fascinating to see how much better it has fared in the recession than its near neighbour at Bournemouth - a bit like Bristol vis-a-vis its neighbour Cardiff.

There must be scope for a doctoral dissertation as to why neighbouring airports are affected so differently in a recession. :reallyshocked:

 

[TheLocalYokel]

September 2011

Haven't featured SOU for a while but it continues to do all right in the face of the recession and its consequences.

CAA stats show that SOU handled 175,733 passengers in September 2011 up 0.7% on September 2010. Atms were down 4% which suggests that load factors were up a bit.

The rolling total was 1,744,537, down 1% on a year ago.

SOU is down just 11% on its best ever calendar year of 2007 when 1.965 million passengers were handled.

Of the airports in southern England west of London and south of Birmingham and in South Wales only BRS (down 8% on its best ever year which was 2008) and SOU have fared relatively well in the recession.

CWL, EXT, BOH and NQY have all lost between 30% and 40% of their passenger numbers in the past 3-4 years and PLH is soon to close.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats August 2012

175,897 passengers used the airport in August, down 6.4% on August 2011. Atms were down 6.3%. Rolling 12-month total was 1,705,075 which is 2% lower than a year ago.

SOU has had a disappointing summer given that it fared well through the early years of the recession compared with many UK regional airports.

Its passenger numbers have been down between 5% and 9% each month this summer.

Like Exeter it's in thrall to Flybe and both airports have seen a reduction in this airline's flights this year, hence the lower passenger numbers at both.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats April 2017

SOU handled 166,084 passengers in the month, up 14.2% on April 2016. Atms were up 16%. Rolling 12-month total was 2,013,879, up 14.1% on a year ago.

I believe that this is the first time that SOU has exceeded two million passengers in a 12-month period.

It got near it in summer 2008 with 1.99 million then with the recession making its presence felt (like most, probably all, UK airports) began to see its passenger figures drop. SOU though didn't fare anything like as badly as some UK airports and never dropped below 1.7 mppa. Despite that, it has taken nearly nine years to beat its previous best.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats June 2018

SOU handled 187,633 passengers in the month, down 5.5% on June 2017. Atms were down 15.1%. Rolling 12-month total was 2,056,734, up just 0.2% on a year ago.

 

[Jerry]

CAA Stats October 2018
171,037 passengers used the airport down 3.1% on October 2017. The rolling year was 2,001,172 down 3.2% on last year.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats May 2019

SOU has had a rough 12 months. In May this year it handled 159,249 passengers, down 13% on May 2018 when it handled 182,987. The rolling 12-month total in May this year was 1,921,779, down 7.1% on May 2018's 2.067 million.

The two airports nearest to SOU's 12-month rolling total both handled more passengers in May 2019 even though their 12-month rolling totals are 300,000 (give or take) less than SOU's.

Southend handled 203,284 (up 58.1%) with a 12-month rolling total of 1,646,146 (up 37% on a year ago).
Cardiff handled 176,704 (up 7.2%) with a 12-month rolling total of 1,618,285 (up 7.1% on a year ago).

 

[Jerry]

CAA Stats July 2019
182,773 passengers used the airport in July down by 9.2% on 2018. The rolling year was 1,883,476 down 7.6% on 2018.

Southampton doesn't seem to be doing well at the moment.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA Stats July 2019
182,773 passengers used the airport in July down by 9.2% on 2018. The rolling year was 1,883,476 down 7.6% on 2018.

Southampton doesn't seem to be doing well at the moment.

The Flybe uncertainty doesn't help either given the importance of that airline to the airport - apart from Flybe there is only Aurigny to the Channel Islands, Volotea with charter flights to the Balearics and easyJet with a ski season service to Geneva. The planned infrastructure expansion is giving hope to some followers that easyJet might be tempted to add to its GVA route.

SOU has seen its annual passenger figures stuck in the range 1.7 million to 2 million since 2005 (it dropped marginally below 1.7 million in 2012), but the 2 mppa barrier has only been passed once - 2.070 million in 2017. Its current 12-month rolling total is now lower than the 12-month total for the calendar year of 2006.

SOU is very well connected to a main line railway with an on-site station but, as with Prestwick, rail connectivity is not necessarily a panacea.

 

[Jerry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1223943613085900801

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA Stats February 2020

Published yesterday - academic to an extent at the moment but copied here for record purposes.

SOU's decline in passneger numbers over the past two years or so goes on and on.

107,102 passengers were handled in the month, down 13.5% on February 2019. Atms were down 1.8%. Rolling 12-month total was 1,745,308, down 11.4% on a year ago.

 

[Seasider]

Pax for March 2022 - 41,468

 

[Jerry]

CAA Stats for 2022
Southampton saw 631,458 passengers use the airport in 2022 up 140% on 2021 (263,131).
Aircraft movements were 20,562.