Originally Posted by
Scottie Dog
I have just been checking my records for the Chicago route - which will have possibly included a short period when BMI were also on the route - and have the following figures for passengers carried in June of each year: I've also done a similar list for Philadelphia in the second column.
MAN/ORD.............................MAN/PHL
2005 - 25,585.......................12,525
2006 - 24,634.......................12,340
2007 - 24,537.......................14,449
2008 - 22,682.......................14,520
2009 - 12,152.......................15,111
2010 - 9,715.........................14,987
2011 - 9,917.........................14,653
2012 - 10,544.......................15,101
2013 - 11,156.......................14,386
2014 - 11,148.......................11,964
2015 - 10,537.......................10,576
2016 - 9,485..........................9,769
2017 - 7,891.........................10,991
2018 - 8,702.........................10,654
It is so obvious that the route has run it's course. What a shame.
It sucks that now they have finally got the right aircraft on the route and are offering reasonable on time performance, and traffic figures are slightly up on last year, it gets canned. Things have changed a good deal though, both at AA and at MAN since the route launched in 1986. Leaves a big hole in MAN's US coverage though, both as a destination in its own right and as a US-entry and onward hub. Could be a case where Manchester loses a city and gains another United?