Passenger Figures
Hello Pete,
The figures held up quite well and the doubling of the of size of the Ryanair base compared with the previous winter isn't the reason per se because atms were down overall by 6.1% on December 2008.
Ryanair didn't utilise all their based aircraft fully on most days and easyJet seemed to reduce rotations compared with the previous December.
The recession came to BRS later than it did to many airports and there are suggestions it might be one of the first to recover.
The CEO seems to think 2010 will be a decent year judging from his consultative committee remarks.
Of course, how these figures relate to airline and airport profitability is another matter.