August CAA stats:
Terminal passengers: 23,358- 8% up on last month
- 99% up on August 2021
- 90% on August 2019 (pre covid)
- Best month for passenger traffic since September 2010.
Individual routes:- Aberdeen: 2,155 (up 3% v July but down 21% v August 2021)
- Belfast City: 848 (up 9% v July but down 29% v August 2021)
- Jersey: 514 (down 21% v July and down 21% v August 2021)
- Newquay: 267 (down 12% v July and down 57% v August 2021)
- Alicante: 3,173 (up 0% v July and up 79% v August 2021)
- Amsterdam: 5,040 (up 40% v July, only 457 passengers in August 2021)
- Burgas: 1,581 (up 40% v July, no flights in August 2021)
- Corfu: 1,285 (down 21% v July but up 160% v August 2021)
- Dublin: 341 (down 18% v July, no flight in August 2021)
- Faro: 3,036 (up 1% v July and up 332% August 2021)
- Palma: 4,814 (up 10% v July and up 315% v August 2021)
Plus charters to Farnborough (27), Bergamo (184) and Eindhoven (89)
Loads continue to be strong on Aberdeen with over 24 passengers per flight and this is the best single operator month on the route since November 2015. Belfast was down year on year as there were only 40 rotations this August compared to 60 in 2021. Jersey is decent in terms of loads but down on last month due to fewer Saturdays in August compared to July and down on last year when Loganair also operated the route. Newquay had its best ever loads but one flight a week does limit the numbers on this route. Dublin has similar loads to Belfast but can this route really survive long term on 2 flights a week?
Amsterdam loads of 61.6 would still have been decent in pre-covid times good but the schedule still only half of what is was in 2019 which is the reason why the route is flying around 5,000 fewer people a month than throughout 2019. Ryanair had really strong loads on Alicante (176), Corfu (161), Faro (169) and Palma (169) - this compares to the 178 passengers per flight on the TUI Palma route. Bourgas was much better in August with 1,581 passengers but loads of 99 passengers still implies that there is not enough demand to fill two flights a week from Teesside (although two flights a week are still planned for next year).