A couple of months back the local paper had a list of where pax were connecting to from EWR. Houston was top,well since the start of the summer schedules it is now available from LHR so it is not really a shocker that pax are slightly down, 3% last month but it still depends on how many of those 136 are in the front.
As for the charters since last year we have had two major mergers so it's not really rocket science that actual numbers will go down. 4 into 2 means that 50% is about where the figures will or perhaps should be.XL seemed to decide to monitor the situation for a year or so.If you look at the split
between schedule & charter figures it's not quite time to get too pessimistic