Originally Posted by
Planeraz
June 23
As highlighted in other post, pax total for June - 1,398,433
Pax totals for selected routes and approx LF’s. N.B some of the American routes had a number of cancellations in June.
TK - Istanbul 10,130 or 94%
QR - Doha 21,067 or 96%
HN- Beijing 617 or 71%
WS - Calgary 7,308 or 96%
AC - Toronto 11,861 or 84%
DL - Atlanta 12,523 or 99%
DL - Boston 11,078 or 91%
DL - JFK 11,674 or 96%
UA - Chicago 9,932 or 98%
UA - Newark 17,045 or 94%
UA - Washington 9,744 or 96%
VS - Orlando 1,381 or 72%
Westjet performed really strongly. The marketing appears to have paid off. It also looks like they may have eaten into Air Canada’s market share and captured some west coast transit pax? Although not awful, AC’s LF is on the lower side. I expect July to be much higher.
Virgin - Orlando is poor. No other way to describe this. Although June isn’t traditionally a holiday month for Scots, VS will surely be disappointed.
Another strong month for QR. July’s total pax will be higher still given the increase to double daily.
TK performing steadily again. Consistent LF’s in the mid 90’s.
The other established US routes all performed well again. DL - JFK taken a small hit, probably due to UA increasing EWR. DL - Boston slightly down, but still hitting a solid 90% plus.
Hainan - Beijing. Hard to judge so far given they only started end of June. If the number of Chinese tourists in Edinburgh currently is anything to go by, I’d expect July and August totals to be much higher.
The LFs don't look entirely accurate unfortunately but happy to be corrected as there are different configs operating in some cases? I get below based on actual configs used and number of flights, taking into account any cancellations:
ATL- 96%
BOS- 85%
JFK- 89%
EWR- 85%
IAD- 93%
ORD- 94%
MCO- 58%
YYC- 88%
YYZ- 91%
DOH- 96%
IST- 93%
PEK- 51%
MCO and PEK June LFs are largely irrelevant given only a couple of flights operated right at the end of the month. The first couple of MCO-EDI sectors were extremely quiet which has dragged the average LF right down given how few flights operated, but we already know the LF for July was around 89% from the American figures, which is more like it. Worth remembering PEK had a very short lead time, July figures will also show it busier for sure.