Also outside the big London airports and Manchester it has the highest number of passengers on nearly all its domestic routes than any other UK airport (200,000 yearly alone on the Edinburgh route – I make that pretty much a ¼ of Bournemouth’s total yearly volume!)
CAA stats for 2011:
BHX 289,000, BRS 286,000, SOU 203,000 to
EDI
BRS 222,000, BHX 212,000, SOU 139,000 to
GLA
BHX 309,000, SOU 86,000, BRS 42,000 to
BHD
BRS 179,000 to
BFS (no SOU or BHX route) so adding the
Belfasts together SOU is in third place of these three airport, and Liverpool is well ahead of all three.
BRS 168,000, SOU 91,000, BHX 13,000 to
NCL
BRS 75,000, BHX 30,000, SOU 2,000 to
INV
BHX 83,000, BRS 33,000, SOU 22,000 to
ABZ
SOU certainly scores highly on such routes as Manchester and the Channel Islands compared with most other regional airports but the above figures show that on a number of domestic routes they are outperformed by other regional airports and not exclusively by BRS and BHX.