Originally Posted by
inOban
I was indulging in a bit of hyperbole. But their growth has certainly slowed greatly. Since they don't, obviously, release details of traffic by geographical area, we have no idea whether there is any growth on routes involving the UK.
In the 5 months to Aug 18 v Aug 17 they increase PAX numbers by 3.2 Million v 6.5 million in 2017 v 2016.
But this has to do with aircraft availability as 2015-2016 the constraint was numbers of available aircraft.
Once more became available there was a surge in new routes.
Also believed they lost at least 1 Million from last Sept because of pilot shortages.
In the year to August PAX numbers grew by 7% (8.3 Million) .v 13% ( 14.3 Million) in previous year.
At this rate it is likely to be 150 Annual in June 2020.