Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
Would it be fair to say that for calendar year 2023, SOU will likely handle between 750,000 and 800,000 passengers ?
If so, that's a hefty and rather disappointing fall from 2017 when it saw over 2 million passengers... the route development team really have got a lot of work to do for SOU to claw its way back
Projections are for 800k this year and 1m next so you would expect a certain amount of new routes with EZY etc to take up the slack. As has been gone over many times previous, the airport was so dependant on BE’s fleet of aircraft but now gone, there was nothing left to fill the void. Fortunately the runway extension is now complete and larger stands in place, therefore fingers crossed the airport should begin to claw its way back again to break even (1m-1.2m pa) in the not to distant future!