2009 Capacity from UK / Irish bases
Hi,
If anyone's interested in how MOL is reacting to the economic problems, here are the capacity figures for UK and Irish bases, comparing Jan - April 2009 with the same period last year. (By the way, there are no state secrets here - all this information is in the public domain, if you dig for it).
EDI and BHX: both up massively (not surprising, given that both were bases were opened last year). Incidentally, bmiBaby flights are down by 40% at BHX.
MAN: Not a base, but 3 times more FR flights than in the same period last year, also more FR flights than at BOH
BOH: up 69% - base opened last April
SNN: up by 7% - Jan, Feb and Mar were all up, but the axe fell in April when movements were down by over 20%
BHD: up 5%
LTN: down 3%
DUB: down 8.1% (EI short haul down by about 4%)
PIK: down 9.5%
BRS: down 9.8%, but with 2 more aircraft to come in July
LPL: down 10.1%
STN: down 12.4%
EMA: down 15.3% (bmiBaby down by about 17%). In April, BHX had almost as many FR flights as EMA