Rite, here are the load factors for the month of April 2007. Make of them what you will:
BLK-DUB 8052 83.3%
BLK-AMS 2735 51.3% As expected
BLK-FAO 3249 64.6%
BLK-ALC 6186(LS) 814(TOM) 67.4%(LS) 68.6%(TOM)
BLK-GRO 9448 97.7%
(Its not even July yet! Beats other FR routes such as Bournemouth, Prestwick, Newcastle, Doncaster etc!)
BLK-AGP 4779 73.4%
BLK-MJV 3276 61.5%
BLK-PMI 3260 50.1%
(I suppose not every route can win!
)
BLK-PRG 2763 51.9% Also...as expected
BLK-STN 9249 60.5% Shame this is to leave - not bad 60%, compared to other routes.
BLK-BFS 5794 38.4%
Never thought it was that bad!
BLK-IOM 1682 65.1% BIGGG increase in May. TT has all flights booked up - upto 9 return flights per day over next 2 weeks!
So there are the routes.
Airport had 62202 passengers in april, with an average of 2007 passengers per day.
Average passengers per overall flight were 61.4%.
Best performing route: Gerona (97.7%)
Worst performing route: Belfast Int (38.4%)
Lots to look forward to for the results of this month (May), but June will see a dramatic decrease of almost 20,000 as Ryanair and Jet2 pull some of their routes. Despite some of JXT and M2's efforts, the airport will have lower passenger numbers through out the summer because of the decrease.
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Surely, taking note from the two best performing routes out of BLK, FR should realise that BLK is great at connecting their city destinations (that don't have trains for competition
) and should seriously look at expanding from the resort. The GRO route beat DSA, BOH, NCL, PIK etc who can operate at full capacity (189 seats) whereas BLK can only offer 156.