FRatStn wrote"With BHD being substantially more convenient for pratically anybody in Belfast, I think a lot of people, if not the majority would still prefer going from BHD to LHR or LGW rather than travel out to BFS to get into STN, LTN or SEN if they were heading more to the north or east of London."
FR, if the above is true and you seem to be great supporter of this idea that everyone wants to use Bhd, then why
1. Are all of Ezy first flights to London area airports tomorrow morning full ex Bfs, yet the 2 flights ex Bhd to Lgw still have seats? All these pax have a free choice to book out of Bhd yet still choose not to.
2. Since November, all these pax to Lgw who would prefer to use Bhd still use Bfs. Ezy have maintained their pax numbers. There has been a large increase in capacity out of Bhd, but only an increase of about 12k pax per month in numbers. So the 2 operators using Bhd to Lgw are now flying with lower load factors and no doubt, yield is poor. Ei has already made the decision to pull their 4th rotation to Lgw from Bhd. Now there is lots of spare capacity out of Bhd, yet the Caa stats show that pax are still using Bfs. Explain please.
Why is it that all the statements that pax would prefer to use Bhd are not supported by the Caa stats? Bhd to Lgw is a really good example to use, lots of seats yet pax still book out of Bfs. Yet we are told they want to use Bhd in preference to Bfs. I look forward to your explanation.
TB