Sorry but why, in the highly competitive market in which we work, should a company regularly announce the passenger figures so that competitors may take advantage? It is something for the airline to know and the competition to find out - not be handed on a platter! Every airline has a person with responsibilty for finding out how the opposition is doing and how their own airline can take advantage of those facts.
There is a statutory requirement to give the figures to the CAA and if bmi and the CAA have agreed a format by which this is to be done then that is up to them. Just because it might frustrate those who wish to interpret them to help their own agenda then more power to bmi's elbow.
Already these figures have been regularly placed by Pprune members who have access to all airline passenger figures by dint of where they work in other airlines. They have, in the past, taken the opportunity to use these to do down bmi - haven't they, Flightxxxxx? Who then can blame bmi for trying to make it a bit more difficult? Commercial savvy.
Anne
