Edinburgh is certainly on a roll at present and it has been a quick
turnaround as up to January their pax figures were awful with
decreases despite an extra two ryanair based compared to the
previous year.
Actually Edinburgh has grown for nine of the past 11 months (Dec and Jan being negative due to the weather).
All the above are winter frequencies, as BHX is a year-round airport
where EDI seems to live off 8-9 months.
In fact BHX is more skewed to the summer, based on max vs min monthly pax for both airports over the past twelve months. The average deviation for BHX is 155790 and EDI is 124039 (the higher figure the greater the skew)
The only service that EDI does better with year-round is probably
Newark but in winter it is fairly close.
You can add Berlin, Milan, Rome, Amsterdam, Oslo, Stockholm, Geneva and Madrid (I have only looked at the main routes).
For Charter traffic BHX has over 10 times as much as EDI. This mainly causes the skewing of the BHX traffic to the summer.
The reverse is true for domestic with EDI having almost 4 times more (and almost as many as Heathrow!) however domestic travel generally is in decline year on year.
Curious about the Lyons statement as EDI carried more scheduled pax than BHX in Feb.
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