According to the CAA website, Bournemouth handled 87,848 passengers in June 2009 a reduction of 11% on June 2008.
Increases in passengers carried compared to last year were seen on Dalaman, Tenerife, Alicante, Verona, Naples, Heraklion, Marseille, Paphos indicating that the charter industry seems to be holding its own compared to the budget scheduled airlines.
Ryanair didn't seem to do well in terms of load factors on their new Carcassonne or Limoges routes - averaging around 55%
Bournemouth handled more pax than Exeter, Guernsey, Newquay, Blackpool, Norwich, Humberside, Durham Tees Valley, Inverness, City of Derry and Isle of Man during that month
Last edited by shamrock7seal : 14th July 2009 at 14:31.
i can see some of the flights by asw/ezy/manx2/fr and possibly the tomson lh routes once the new terminal is completed by some of the others seem fairly unlikely in my opinion
I doubt the 4x Weekly New York and Dubai, more like 1x Weekly, there currently isnt the population for them long haul flights at least within the next 10-15 years Belfast could easily be daily, if the right advertising was done, along with Dublin, Cork and Shannon, as a few Irish Routes. City routes including Madrid, Stockholm, Copenhagen need to be at least 2 times weekly they are city destinations, and not everyone will want to spend a whole week there. Budapest/Prague/Bratislava could all be 2/3 times weekly easily, with so many young students in Bournemouth, they would be attracted to those destinations as well as a daily if not twice daily AMS flight. Vueling wouldnt work for Barcelona, however Girona with Ryanair Daily would... etc...
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but long haul to NYC etc. from BOH is so far down the list when you think that in the UK/EIRE, DXB isn't served from:
Bristol
Liverpool
Belfast
DUBLIN
Cork
Edinburgh
Luton
NYC:
Newcastle
East Midlands
GATWICK
Those are just the few that would stand a slim chance of one of the routes, some a VERY slim chance.
I can't see the European flights mentioned coming off in the near future either to be honest.
I think Air Southwest would be interested in plugging the Glasgow gap that is now left open after Ryanair's axing of the Prestwick services. Just not sure how comfortable a flight to GLA from BOH would be on a DH8-300
Carcassonne is twice weekly, giving a flown LF of 66%.
Limoges is also twice weekly, giving a flown LF of 48% (after 44% in May and 37% in April). I fear that Limoges may not be back next summer unless it improves fast.
Interestingly, the real stars for FR were all to Spain: Malaga, Alicante, Murcia and Palma were all well over 80%.
Good post as usual Anna List - the BOH market is high percentage leisure, odd though that some of the more obvious FR destinations don't make it in favour of the more bizarre -in which category I would include Limoges, Nantes (Flybe bashing?), Wroclaw and Shannon as examples.
There is still a hole in Poland, the number of expat Poles has not diminished that much on the coast since last summer. Krakow is the obvious gap.
BOH has a very high leisure and educational travel catchment, ie. low-ish frequency, but also city break & bucket and spade.
Surely will not be long before FR adds the Canaries, Malta, even Morrocco, but there seems no near prospect of Venice, Rome, Prague (which did ok with TFly) and ... though not FR territory, Nice has strong links with the UK south coast - a similar market to the EZY GVA Ski types.
I hear too that advance bookings for the newly announced Sharm El Sheik and Turkey routes next year are selling fast.
Conversely the inbound tourism in this part of the world is astonishing, seems half of Germany and Holland is around at the moment!
2010 - with the new terminal too has the potential to be quite rosy for BOH.
I flew Limoges - Bournemouth on Saturday and the plane was surprisingly full, it must have been 175 or so, which is 93%. Going out it was more like 65%.
I flew Limoges - Bournemouth on Saturday and the plane was surprisingly full, it must have been 175 or so, which is 93%. Going out it was more like 65%.
Holiday weekend in France. 14th July and all that. Also 'Le Tour' was in Limoges so a lot going on. Interesting to see how the loads look for the rest of the year.
Lots of good ideas for routes that would be viable from BOH ! Some quite daft !
The trouble is Ryanair only seem to choose the wrong destination at the wrong times of day.
Why Limoges ????
Swap it for Bergerac Daily in summer then 4 a week in winter, just copy the flybe routes and times and as long as they are really a better price at the end of the booking process they could get fantastic results.
Limoges ( middle of nowhere ) - Bergerac ( millions of expats in all directions ) - No contest
Even the old Euroscot set up had decent load factors, because they flew at the right times, regular travellers are business travellers and don't want to fly at lunchtime !
Limoges may not seem the most 'low hanging' of the fruit to pluck from BOH, but sometimes it depends more on where the deal is best and which route timing can be fit into the schedule. Remember we took over the BOH operation of Buzz. We have seen first hand the forward bookings on the Buzz service to EGC (and others) and it wasn't viable to continue in our minds (then). But things change and it may not be a bad route from BOH at the right price and frequency when we can actually do it. But we are trying out routes where we can from BOH, there will be more - some will succeed and others may not. in fact there haven't been terribly loss making routes from BOH, it's more that some make significant R.O.P and others just 'contribute' - its a case of filtering out only the significantly profitable ones so we can see a long-term successful operation.
Prestwick was a case in point. But recently due slack economy and leakage to EDI, yield went too low and demand also weakened so we had no choice. If the economy picks up and more a/c become available (based a/c) at either PIK or BOH, with the right flight times it may come back. PIK based a/c capacity is being cut for the winter period and the lower yielding routes (like BOH) took the hammer first as a result of that reduction.
What about the Paris route , Milan and Turin as well .......they were never given any time to get load factors and yield correct before being pulled
The Turin was a popular ski route and was a good service on a Saturday
This winter we will see Gerona , Dublin operating as a based route from the airport but at only 4 times a week when in particular the Gerona route has performed really well with constantly high load factors
lovejet - Dash-8-300 would be fine - NQY-GLA takes 1hr 45 at FL240. It's tipped the 2 hour mark with headwinds a few times. Anything over 2 hours becomes a bit bum-numbing!
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