As I have posted several times on the Birmingham thread about the
dismal summer at BHX, indeed Lufthansa (& possibly Bacon) have bucked
the trend. The CAA stats are as follows: -
Dusseldorf - BHX
April 14103 +11%
May 12378 +19%
June 12685 + 9%
July 9916 - 7% (whoops) LH reduced to 2 a day for July & Aug
Frankfurt - BHX (BA reduced from 5 to 4 a day from 2005 and all ERJ's)
April 25915 +19%
May 25161 +20%
June 24130 + 8%
July 25513 + 8%
Munich - BHX
April 11889 +10%
May 11320 +15%
June 11286 + 8%
July 12785 +15%
Also we know from BHX press releases all Midlanders stayed at home
and watched the World Cup - so nothing to do with the increases
I am sure there is quite a bit of low yielding connecting traffic on
Munich and Frankfurt but still a good performance.
Bring on LH to BRS, SOU, I say
BTW the Saturday afternoon Munich tomorrow should be a CRJ900
but as with LH at BHX you can get anything from a 321 down
these days.
Pete
BTW