DURHAM TEES VALLEY AIRPORT - 5

[davidjohnson6]

Provisional CAA stats September 2012

Main points:
- MME-AMS route saw a modest improvement but NCL-AMS had a bigger improvement
- MME-PMI took a big tumble
- MME continues to lose market share both for the Amsterdam route and for non-route-specific passengers numbers to NCL

Durham Tees Valley overall
Sep 2012 - 14,504 passengers, down 4.7%
Rolling year - 164,167 passengers, down 17.4%

Note the 17.4% decline in the rolling year figure is dominated by the loss of the Turkish sunshine routes which ended in August 2011. While the absence of any new sunshine routes at MME means more of the beach holiday traffic has moved long-term to NCL, this is not useful in measuring day-to-day performance at MME in the last few months.

The 4.7% decline in the Sep 2012 month figure versus Sep 2011 comes down to 3 things
- Loss of Catania + Verona charters (-588 passengers)
- Significant decline in Palma / Mallorca route (-458 passengers)
- Modest improvement on Amsterdam route (+215 passengers)

For comparison:
Newcastle overall
Sep 2012 - 487,746 passengers, up 1.6%
Rolling year - 4,351,792 passengers, down 0.1%

NE England market share
If we assume that MME and NCL compete to some degree with each other and that those living particularly in County Durham can choose either airport
MME's market share of commercial passenger traffic in NE England :
Sep 2011 - 3.08%
Sep 2012 - 2.89%

Aberdeen route:
MME Sep 2012 - 2,915 passengers, up 2.5% or +72 passengers
NCL Sep 2012 - 1,886 passengers, down 11.3% or -240 passengers
There seems to be a sustained, albeit rather small, growth story for MME on the Aberdeen route over the last few months.

Amsterdam route:
MME Sep 2012 - 9,181 passengers, up 2.4% or +215 passengers
NCL Sep 2012 - 25,001 passengers, up 4.1% or +995 passengers
Yes, an improvement in absolute terms, but again a loss of market share. MME has 26.9% of the NE England - KLM market in Sep 2012, down from 27.2% in Sep 2011

Palma route:
MME Sep 2012 - 1,847 passengers, down 19.9% or -458 passengers
NCL Sep 2012 - 38,353 passengers, down 0.3% or -97 passengers
There were 4 Saturdays in Sep 2011, but 5 Saturdays in Sep 2012.
Not sure what the story is with Palma...