Seems a random day for an extra flight - did Ryanair have a four hour afternoon slot free at LTN that they didn't know what else to do with or something?
Departures at 12:45pm and 4:50pm to Luton, EI to Gatwick departs at 12:45pm, FR Stansted flight goes at 1:40pm - I can't imagine there's that much demand for flights from Knock to London on a Saturday afternoon...
On a separate note, I don't think the passenger figures for the first quarter of 2013 have been posted, so here they are:
January 32,089 (+221/0.7%)
February 34,886 (-2800/7.4%)
March 43,644 (-2828/6.1%)
Overall 110,619 (-5407/4.7%)
The expected passenger number drops already clear to see unfortunately, this is likely to be a trend right through the year at Knock after last year's record breaking numbers. Somewhere around the 650k mark still probably the target for 2013 - that would see the damage limited to a 5% drop overall.
Last edited by Kinocker; 22nd Apr 2013 at 22:05.