CAA provisional stats for June have been revised for some reason, and the BRS-EWR route has 'found' an extra 115 pax, giving a monthly total of 7266 (average load 121*, just over 70% load factor).
As a comparison, the other new United Kingdom CO route to EWR from BFS has had its provisional figures published today, and these show 7717 pax were carried (average load 129*, load factor 75%).
* rounded to the nearest whole number.
I have been told by a number of sources that the loads in both directions on the BRS route have been much improved recently, although I suppose if they hadn't at the height of the holiday season eyebrows might be raised.
hostiegirl,
We were told a few weeks ago that an Air Malta 320 would be based at BRS this winter. Bearing in mind such a unit has been carrying out much of Freedom Flight's programme this summer, would this be the a/c operating the winter XL programme?