Hi,
Given some of the recent discussions, I thought some of you might be interested to see a few pictures showing the development of bmibaby.
First up, here's the total number of movements at each base by year:
In terms of movements, EMA and CWL peaked in 2003, MAN in 2006 and BHX in 2007.
I had forgotten how ambitious bmibaby were at the beginning at EMA: In 2003 they were operating routes like Pisa, Bergamo and Munich (all daily at one stage), Dublin (3 a day) and Murcia (daily). In the first half of 2003, they had up to 27 departures a day from EMA, compared to about 17 last summer. Presumably that figure will go up a fair bit this summer.
BHX peaked at about 25 departures a day in the summer of 2007. Last summer they were down to about 13 or 14 a day.
Here's the same data as a stacked chart:
Here's the total number of movements at each base by month, so that you can see the seasonality:
And finally here's the same data as a stacked chart:
(data from ACARS / CAA for BHX and MAN)