Ryanair
It’s now reaching the end of the summer schedules and I’ve had a look at the Ryanair passenger figures for August as the first anniversary of the opening of the BRS base approaches. Load factors are shown to the nearest half of one per cent.
I know yield is the really important figure but the load factors at least give a clue to the potential market for a route.
Katowice 3031 passengers, average load 168, load factor 89%
Wroclaw 4382, 168, 89%
Rzeszow 2753, 172, 91%
Poznan 3052, 169, 89.5%
Budapest 2996, 166, 88%
Porto 4553, 163, 86%
Bratislava 2666, 166, 88%
Riga 4457, 162, 85.5%
Dinard 4139, 159, 84%
Bergerac 4598, 164, 86.5%
Beziers 4396, 169, 89.5%
Pau 4258, 152, 80.5%
Milan Bergamo 9757, 157, 83%
Knock 5665, 157, 83%
Derry 4054, 119, 63%*
(* lf shown for the full 189 seats in the B 738 albeit Derry is load limited to fewer available seats than this.)
Derry, Porto and Pau have been axed, at least for the winter, with new routes to Gdansk, Marrakech, Szczecin and Grenoble taking their places, the last-named being the first route to go head-to-head with easyJet from BRS.
The other FR routes that are operated by aircraft from outside the BRS base are:
Girona 10294, 166, 88%
Shannon 8323, 160, 84.5%
Dublin 30217, 149, 79%
There have been reports that the Polish boom is wilting in the UK. The FR Polish routes have held up well in numbers as have the two easyJet Polish routes, viz:
Krakow 9257, 149, 95.5%
Warsaw 3896, 150, 96%
Finally, easyJet still competes with FR to Milan and carried 6885 passengers on its Malpensa route in August. easyJet appears to have dropped the Saturday rotation in August (though it has since returned) and so the average load last month was 132, a load factor of 84.5%, very similar to FR’s 83% to Bergamo.