March Pax
Mike
You touch on an interesting point here as you can understand the bulk of the reduction due to easyjet and this will be part sorted by FR's 7th aircraft and baby's increase plus Jet2 but the worrying aspect for baby is this "eggs in one basket" problem.
Hopefully this is just a blip but take their five core based aircraft (okay it is 7 now) - source CAA.
Belfast March pax 5908 down 32%
Glasgow March pax 9835 down 14%
Edinburgh March pax 10713 down 15%
Paris March pax 7691 down 15%
Amsterdam March pax 9339 down 1.2%
To be fair all airports north of Watford are hurting on domestics in the main but other airports are showing growth to Amsterdam & Paris.
Okay Belfast is really up as Ryanair added 33% on their previous year figure.
A quick scan of the ryanair routes show pax down like most airports due to their winter reductions and these will recover this summer. The worrying aspect are the BMI Baby flights especially for next winter.
They have increased EDI and GLA back to three daily in the week but the above figures suggest that this could be a bit risky.
Certainly an interesting summer ahead at East Mids.
Pete