Originally Posted by
LTNman
Very disappointing figures and undermines the airports public transport strategy.
The average daily figure is only 6802 passengers a day or 2.48m a year. Assuming the airport will handle 17.5m passengers this year the percentage figure is a mere 14.2% which is under half of what was predicted. At a cost of £9.80 return, clearly their is some reluctance to use it.
It does explain nicely why the intention is to increase passenger car park spaces by 62%.
I can guarantee that tapping in or out 3 times to travel on the Dart will lead to at least one barrier failure where a gate agent will have to override the closed gate.
Will all of the DART passengers also be the airport's passengers travelling out or in on a flight?