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Still no sign of CAA numbers for Belfast City for June.


Most unusually inefficient and unlike them - especially when Ri Chun-hee is stating everything is going so positively...

STILL no sign of any CAA figures for summer reported by BHD - and summer has virtually been and gone!

I wonder if the data has been shared with their newly installed shareholders yet, even if they don't intend to issue them publicly?!

Passenger numbers are available on their website although no route analysis
http://www.belfastcityairport.com/Co...tatistics.aspx

The passenger volumes graph is very worrying - looks like annual passenger figures will fall below 2.5 million this year.

I hope CAA stats come out soon - I'd like to see the figures for KEF.

Any update post the recent routes forum held in Belfadr

Basically it should be sold for development. There is no money to be made with 2 Belfast airports. The value of the site must be worth more to the owner if it had a change of use. This site would be prime for development as an extension to Titantic quarter, housing/office/leisure and sport. What an opportunity to create an urban village!
Most jobs would be relocated to BFS! BFS would be able to spend and spend on new facilities creating a very large airport the size of Glasgow!! Links to the airport would be improved....

Or we could just go down the current road of 2 airports competing for chunks of a relatively small market. With no money to invest in their infrastructure.....

And yet both have grown turnover in the last year.

At least West Brit has a predictable response!:roll eyes

A realist!

It seems not a long time ago when Mr A and the team were on a roll and growing the business quite spectacularly, now there is a question were they just lucky or at that stage were the Aldergrove management just incompetent?


Yes, the runway extension? (never happened) It is a constrained facility if you haven't noticed.
KLM can't even get an early departure at 06.00. Holiday flights are restricted, with runway length and curfew.
So if there were other opportunities for the facility eg closing down and developing, would the owner not at least look at them?

The runway extension was refused by planners. There is no flexibility in the curfew! Nothing to do with BFS but locals who actually do deserve to have a nights sleep. Guess what? there is a curfew at London City and even Heathrow so management will have to work with that!

The runway was refused unofficially ie BHD knew there was no hope or they would have pursued it.

KLM knew the rules when they picked Bhd as the airport of choice. If they wanted a 6.00 am departure, why did they pick Bhd then? Whatever made them think that they could such an early departure considering the location? Have they no experience from Lcy? Stupid or what?

€519m profit in 2016. Or what is your answer

Where did I question their profitability?

CAA stats for July (but still not June!) are finally out.

Icelandair carried 1,014 passengers on their new KEF route, which gives an average load of 39 pax (53%). It sounds bad, but Icelandair's other Q400 route to ABZ has a similar load factor (59%) despite running for a couple of years.

AMS on the other hand is performing very well, with KLM carrying 5,214 passengers in July (up 22% on 2016). This gives an average load of 85 pax. Given that the route was operated mainly by Cityjet's RJ-85s (95 seats), that gives a load factor of 89%. For the E175 these figures would give a 97% load factor. There is some real potential for an upgrade to the E-190 next summer, or even a second daily flight.

Aer Lingus' summer routes are all down given the reduction in frequencies. FAO (-19%), ALC (-45%), AGP (-20%), PMI (-23%). Aer Lingus carried 8,524 fewer passengers on its summer routes this July than in 2016.

Domestic services as a whole are fairly flat, with 225,477 domestic passengers in July compared to 227,705 last year, representing a 1% decrease.

Overall, 257,633 passengers used BHD in July, down 4.5% on last year.

FR
 

Might BA reinstate one of the axed rotations they had planned for w17/18 or might the much rumoured but never arrived BACF LCY BHD appear post the FR LGW announcement?

Unfortunately I can't see BA backtracking on their LHR schedule reduction or introducing any new routes. I would love to see them try the LCY or LGW routes and think it might work as they could pick up a certain amount of premium traffic as they offer a proper business class with Club Europe on domestic services these days. It would also provide feed for their other routes from LGW and LCY.

https://www.dublinairport.com/latest...kjavik-service

The curse of UK Air Passenger Duty again. Like KLM, Belfast launches flights only to be overtaken by a bigger Icelandair operation from DUB ...

Still - real optimism about sense finally prevailing. This kind of mindless self-harm by Treasury can’t go on forever. Especially once they only have the well-being of the UK to consider.