March CAA stats:
Terminal passengers: 6,970 (compared to 5,346 in Feb, 1,559 passengers in Mar 2021, 5,215 in Mar 2020 - start of covid impact - and 11,109 in March 2019)- Aberdeen: 1,491 (up 16% v February & up 12% v March last year)
- Belfast City: 476 (up 38% v Feb, no pax in Mar 21)
- Heathrow: 1,006 (up 18% v Feb, only 96 pax in Mar 21)
- Newquay: 10 passengers (no pax last month or in Mar 21)
- Alicante: 2,421 (up 16% v Feb, no pax in Mar 21)
- Amsterdam: 1,158 (up 121% v Feb, no pax in Mar 21)
- Faro: 126 (no pax last month or in Mar 21)
- Palma: 82 (no pax last month or in Mar 21)
Plus charters to Biggin Hill (33), Farnborough (45), Norwich (43), Gatwick (42) and Stansted (80).
Overall numbers continue to grow month-on-month on all regular routes and were helped overall by the recommencement of some of the summer services. Belfast was boosted by increased rotations and Heathrow is running at 19 pax per flight despite only a skeleton daily service. Alicante is running at an 80% load factor and Amsterdam has had its best month in terms of overall numbers & average loads since covid (although a long way short of the 10,000 a month using the route beforehand). Aberdeen is growing but there is a concern as loads were not particularly strong and numbers were slightly down on the Eastern days of March 2019.
Do not read too much into the Newquay, Faro and Palma numbers as there were only 2 (one inbound and one outbound) flights on each route in the month.
April 2022 should see the best passenger numbers since October 2019 (and possibly the best April since 2013) but let's see...