BRS-SFB
I think we can accept
a bristolian's post as the definitive answer - he knows what he is talking about on such matters.
Watabench says traffic down 22% in March, another thread says March down 26%. Which is right and who is hurting? Is is accross the board or are scheduled flights and airlines the main losers?
CAA provisional stats show BRS passenger numbers decreased by 22.5% compared with March 2008.
The airport's website broke this down as a huge 45% decrease in charter passenger numbers. No doubt this was due to a large extent to the loss of XL but there were fewer flights to such destinations as the Canaries as well.
Sched international passenger numbers were down 21% and sched domestic down 10% - mainly due to fewer rotations flown by easyJet on many routes.
Also bear in mind that all airports suffered because Easter was in April this year whereas in 2008 it was in March.
Put into overall context for the rolling 12 months ending 31 March 2009, BRS's passenger numbers were down 1.5% compared with a year ago. By this measure BRS is the fourth best performer of the UK's top twenty airports with Belfast City, London City and Birmingham doing better.