Jongeman
Couple of easy answers losing BA/BMI Stateside and Ryanair has given the biggest
hits accounting for a very large percentage drop as you say and the railways have taken a lot but this does now seem to have bottomed out
The US situation should start to sort it`s self out this summer with extra flights coming on line, however the Ryanair flights won`t ease until Sept/Oct when Ryanair
chucked the dummy out of the pram last year.
There is quite a lot of positive things happening many perhaps not very exciting but
never the less all important. New domestic services show that things are improving
as do re-instatement of services ie CSA and Air Baltic
Birmingham has seen to have a much smaller drop in numbers, however Ryanair
and bmiBaby are both dropping services and they are not picking new ones up either so this year will not be good for them
I don`t have the figures to hand but Liverpool is suffering a down turn at present
which I think is quite large.
Lets all hope that the freight continues to improve like it has in last 3 or 4 months
and as Suseman said a while back this is usually a barometer of how the overall
trend is going
Ian B