Certainly BHX's figures are a shock, I thought a 1-2% loss was likely and it seems that the airport were expecting this in the earlier part of the year but over 6%!.
All we can hope for that it shakes the management to the core as these
are pathetic figures. I just checked the BHX July 2003 CAA stats -
992813. It takes some doing in the current aviation boom to obtain
monthly pax figures below July 2003.
The East Mids figures are good but 2005 was "their bad year", as the
CAA stats show the following: -
July 2003 474801
July 2004 483739
July 2005 447634.
With Ryanair in place things should only improve for EMA and good luck to them. BHX are struggling but I still would not like this horrible airline based at BHX, more jealous of EMA having the Orange lot and we would
graciously take them off your hands
, crew shortages and all.
BTW the Ryanair EMA French routes seem to be hitting the Flybe French
routes at BHX looking at the April-June stats. Of course Flybe have
changed some routes from a 146 to DH8 but I have just checked
the May load factors and they are not great even on a Dash 8.
Hard times at BHX.
Pete