Originally Posted by
chaps1954
" It was Ramadan - all Mid East flights were down everywhere.. "
Most Middle East flights were up with the exception of Emirates in May for virtually all airports to
Muscat, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah with Qatar doing exceptionally well
Cheers Chaps - I think I didn't explain what I was getting at very well.
Basically Emirates was excellent at 74% but of course affected by the cut in the number of services which increased the load factor. At a glance I thought the most disappointing aspect was Qatar, as Emirates lost 5300 pax and Qatar only picked up around 1500. However looking at the respective dates of Ramadan it is possible this was most of the reason, as it covered all but 5 days of May this year and only half of May in 2018. All in all a net loss of around 3500 passengers isn't desperately bad.
Jet2
11 Based at present and 26 flights today including 4 flights to Palma which is possibly a first for a single airline to have that many to one destination from BHX in a day outside of football matches
TUI
The Olympus A321 seems to be stuck in BHX after the Rhodes and this mornings Ibiza is scheduled out at 14.10 - back in service now
Sporting Charters
The West Midlands not really known for its sporting teams but three charters over the last three days and the season has barely started with Crusaders flying in for the Europa League tie with Wolves but the more surprising ones were Loganair from Gatwick with Brighton to play a friendly at BCFC and last night Air Charter X took Bournemouth back from a friendly with WBA. These are not going to affect passenger figures greatly but quite a start to the season and these are far from the first either.
Pete