Always good to have some complimentary nosh and liquid, B_T.
Let's hope the local business community supports these routes. HAM and MUC should both see some nailed-on business traffic with the EADS links and with the Imperial Tobacco to HAM this will be something to build on.
It seems that the HAM and HAJ will be operated by the 135 with FRA, MUC, MXP and ABZ by the 145.
Still awaiting CAA stats for April which seem to be a couple of days late but the airport has published its own figures that always vary slightly each month from the CAA figures but not by so much as to create a serious conflict.
The airport says overall passenger numbers for April at just over 483,000 were 0.6% down on its figures for April 2012. Charter passengers saw the biggest fall at around 8,000 fewer with scheduled domestic down around 3,000. Scheduled international was up about 8,000. Slightly disappointing perhaps but the split Easter (end of March/beginning of April) probably had a part to play. Passenger numbers for the first four months of this year are nearly one half of a per cent higher than the same period in 2012.
The summer looks promising in terms of flights. The eleventh based easyJet aircraft appears to be arriving on Friday week (24th) according to Mayfly (a couple of weeks later than in 2012) and will be an A 320, giving 3 x 320s and 8 x 319s, a complement that did not appear in 2012 until July - last year the late spring/early summer saw 2 x 320s and 9 x 319s.
Mayfly shows 98 airline departures on Friday 24th May which is a few more than on Fridays in August last year.
There will be a couple of new charter visitors this summer with Mistral Air operating a B 734 for Tui to Verona on Saturdays (last summer it was a non-based TOM B 738) - there will be a second Verona on Saturdays with bmi regional flying on behalf of Inghams - and JetairFly flying a Palma for Tui on Sundays with a B 738.
Finally, Aer Lingus Regional is showing only a single daily rotation (early morning) on its DUB-BRS service for next winter.
Last edited by MerchantVenturer; 16th May 2013 at 21:04.
Reason: Friday week is 24th May not 25th as I originally typed