80% load factors isn't that impressive is it? They'd be extremely dissappointed it was lower than that. I'd say a sure sign that passengers don't want to travel from there is the number of routes and airlines the airport has been haemoragging in the last 12 months. Carriers such as Air Asia moving to Gatwick and several easyJet routes moving to both Southend and Luton.
I'd say Stansted has been the main victim of Ryanair's vast success. One carrier with so much leverage and power at one airport. Smashing the competition.
I've been bemoaning Monarch recently; what they're doing at the moment is probably quite good; their load factors in the 90s% this summer. What I'm afraid of is where they're going to go when their fleet grows to the upper 40s? Especially as the fleet will be just A320/1s essentially.
Last edited by Dannyboy39; 28th Oct 2012 at 15:17.