Came across this table recently. It's a rough estimate of the short-haul charter capacity offered by the big 4 in the North for summer 04. It's a bit flawed in that with the exception of the Monarch operation for My Travel at LPL, its based on services flown by their own fleets and doesn't include all the sub-con stuff.
Manchester
TUI 1,000
MYT 975
TCX 950
FCA 925
TOTAL 3,850
Leeds
TUI 145
MYT 145
TCX -
FCA 10
TOTAL 300
Liverpool
TUI 175
MYT 100
TCX -
FCA -
TOTAL 275
Humberside
TUI 50
MYT 25
TCX -
FCA -
TOTAL 75
Data shows numbers of seats in 000's, meaning there are 4.5 million seats in total of which 3.85 million (86%) is based out of MAN.
On top of that Excel / Monarch / Astraeus have a 1 million more seats out of MAN and nothing from the other airports, meaning that about 95% of charter capacity is going from one airport over what is quite a wide region.
No wonder the tour operators are in the brown stuff and are loosing share to the loco's. Shouldn't MYT et al be trying to put the supply where the demand is if they want to stop the rot? Can't believe places like LBA and HUY are expensive in comparison to MAN
loco
Last edited by Going loco; 9th Jul 2004 at 10:03.