Originally Posted by
caaardiff
These are the passenger figures from the CAA 2018 stats. It's interesting to see that CWL carries by far more passengers on these routes than at DSA and the home base EXT with the potential loss of JER, DUB and CDG due to being non based routes.
BHD - CWL 70784 DSA 16766 (EXT 36722)
EDI - CWL 102102 (EXT 48076)
JER - CWL 20095 DSA 33032 (EXT 41240)
DUB - CWL 108275 DSA 33659 (EXT 35587)
CDG - CWL 77676 DSA 36181 (EXT 50016)
However, BHDEXT is at most single daily DH4 against double daily E75 on CWL, as is EDI, suggesting that yield is likely better at EXT. Any airline can fill an aircraft with £20 tickets...it’s filling it and making money that’s important. What’s clear is that Flybe can’t do this with an E75 based in CWL at the level necessary, even with the support offered by CWL and by the Welsh Gvnt. If they could, they wouldn’t be closing the base.