April CAA stats:
Terminal passengers: 14,216, 13% up on April 2019 (pre covid), the best month since September 2019 and the best month of April since 2013.- Aberdeen: 1,420 (down 5% v March and down 2% v April 2021)
- Belfast City: 1,172 (up 146% v March, not comparable to April 2021)
- Heathrow: 1,091 (up 8% v March, not comparable to April 2021)
- Newquay: 95 (not comparable to March, no pax in April 2021)
- Southampton: 330 (new route)
- Alicante: 2,748 (up 14% v March, best month since Ryanair returned)
- Amsterdam: 2,428 (up 110% v March, no pax in April 21)
- Faro: 2,332 (not comparable to March, no pax in April 2021)
- Palma: 2,029 (not comparable to March, no pax in April 2021)
Plus charters to Biggin Hill (38), Bournemouth (70), Cardiff (70) and Luton (38).
Aberdeen appears to have flattened out, possibly due to Loganair finding the optimum balance of price v demand. Belfast is doing really well and 23.4 pax per flight surely points to enough demand for a daily operation. Heathrow loads improved to 18.2, the best figure since the flight was reintroduced. Neither Newquay or Southampton were particularly impressive. Loads on Alicante (153), Faro (130) and Palma (113) are all the best since Ryanair returned to Teesside. Amsterdam responded well to an improved service in April with loads of 55 passengers, impressive for a service that only ran a single each-way service on 22 days in the month.
Expect May to be near 18,000 pax, which would be an 11 year high.