BMI Baby
True Blue
Certainly the Belfast Int figures have increased impressively.
It is a bit of a strange route in as much as when you do hear pax loads
from various sources they are usually not that good but the CAA stats
certainly do not lie.
I think in April it averaged around about the hundred mark, which
considering BACON started City in the same month it is a pretty
good result for Baby.
The provisional stats for June are out but Belfast Int has not filed
the figures. Belfast City have and they are down about 2000 this is
all from a net increase on the previous 12 months of three flights
a day. Far from stimulating interest in the route BACON has
actually depressed it or Baby have lured them away to Int.
As for yields on these routes I have no idea but something has
got to give. Already the BACON RJ100 flight (first one out) has been
been doing BHX-GLA instead recently. Whether this was pre-planned
I do not know.
At the moment pax wise it seems that Baby are winning, Flybe are
not doing too bad (remember some services have changed to the
DH8) and BACON appears to be struggling unless they are getting
good yields.
To answer your question, I think Baby would be better to attack
BACON on the Glasgow - Just would like BHX would actually get
some new routes!
Pete