July stats are out and are as follows: (Total/Pax per flight/Load Factor)
STN 13349/166.7/88%
BHX 5408/150.2/80%
LPL 7128/132/70%
PIK 6609/122.4/65%
TFS 1304/163/86%
ALC 2537/158.6/84%
FAO 4598/164.2/87%
PMI 1428/178.5/94%
REU 1785/178.5/99%
MAN 2246/48.8/63%
Statistics for Aug 2011
(Route/Flights/Pax/Lf)
Stansted/80/168.3/89%
Liverpool/54/141.2/75%
Birmingham/36/158/84%
Prestwick/52/118.7/63%
Manchester/42/58.9/75%
Alicante/18/157.5/83%
Faro/24/157.4/83%
Tenerife/10/163.2/86%
Palma/10/186/98%
Reus/8/168.7/94%
The Alicante load factor for July / August was therefore 83.6%.
But this was a very short season and those figures suffered the overhead of the first and last (nearly) empty flights being divided over just the two months so it compares well against Tenerife and Faro *if* Ryanair would look past the headline figures which given their huge number of routes alas may not be the case.
Removing the first and last flights to/from the ALC base you get load factors of nearer 89%.
No reason to axe the ALC flight therefore and I hope the removal from the website is just due to the end of season but given last year's fiasco I'm no longer sure.
Anyway,
2009 Alicante announced,
2010 Faro announced,
2011 Tenerife announced,
2012 Malaga?