January CAA stats:
Terminal passengers: 2,882 (compared to 5,798 last month, 697 passengers in Jan 2021 and 9,803 in Jan 2020)- Aberdeen: 963 (down 36% v December but up 76% v Jan last year)
- Belfast City: 279 (down 50% v Dec, only 19 pax in Jan last year)
- Heathrow: 700 (down 48% v Dec, only 27 in Jan last year)
- Alicante: 311 (down 73% v Dec)
- Amsterdam: 629 (down 20% v Dec)
A really disappointing month but passenger numbers perhaps not surprising given the low number of rotations (Aberdeen had 16% fewer flights in January compared to December, Belfast -38%, Heathrow -35%, Alicante -78% and Amsterdam -20%). The general trend (apart from Alicante) is that loads are down versus December.
Amsterdam will be even worse in February and things don't look like they are going to improve there until the end of March when KLM are scheduled to back to a daily service, still a far cry from the 18 outbound flights a week the airport enjoyed 2 years ago. Heathrow is due to go back to a double daily on 1 April so fingers crossed that happens, especially as (anecdotally) loads have apparently been strong recently.