February CAA stats:
Terminal passengers: 5,346 (compared to 2,882 last month, 1,172 passengers in Feb 2021 and 10,450 in Feb 2020)- Aberdeen: 1,285 (up 33% v January & up 32% v Feb last year)
- Belfast City: 344 (up 23% v Jan, no pax in Feb 21)
- Heathrow: 856 (up 23% v Jan, no pax in Feb 21)
- Alicante: 2,091 (v 311 in Jan)
- Amsterdam: 523 (down 17% v Jan)
Plus charters to Bristol (35), Luton (35), Norwich (43) and an inbound diversion from
Arrecife (134),
Numbers well up on a very poor January and up against the covid impact in Feb 2021. Whilst overall passenger numbers are still nowhere near pre-covid levels, this is primarily down to the number of rotations as loads are reasonably strong. Heathrow (one flight a day) averaged 17.8 pax per flight (best month yet), Belfast 21.5 (again the best month yet), Amsterdam 43.6 (best month since Feb 2020) and Aberdeen was 17.6 (in line with recent levels and very strong in historic terms).
Don’t read too much into Alicante being well up on the previous month as Ryanair only ran 4 flights in January. February load of 131 pax was 69% compared to 78% on the rest of their network.
So some green shoots here, just need Loganair and KLM to keep to their planned schedule increases.