The July provisional stats are in. Pax per flight and load factor are as follows:
Stansted: 160.3/85%
Birmingham: 131.4/69.5%
Liverpool: 128.8/68%
Prestwick: 139/73.5%
Dublin: 11.8/28% (surely this route is for the chop sooner rather than later).
Faro: 178.5/94.4%
Alicante: 159.4/84.3%
Palma: 178.4/94.4%
Reus: 174.8/92.5%
Burgas: Carried 405 pax during July, but as this route was shared with Cardiff I have no idea how many seats were available from LDY.
Overall, pax numbers fell 7.7%, with flights down over 9%. So, it seems the continued fall in pax numbers has more to do with flight reductions and crazy scheduling from RYR than anything else. Dublin is shocking, and no doubt will soon bite the dust.
Having said that the Faro, Alicante, Reus and Palma LFs are encouraging. Perhaps RYR will add a Malaga for next year.
STN still looks like a route that could return to 2xdaily.
Cuthere.