bmi regional August passenge rnumbers
The below are August's figures, Pandy, assuming all advertised flights operated. Incidentally, this post has been copied from another website but I was responsible for the original, although not as MV. All stats courtesy of the CAA.
August 2013
Aberdeen (E145) 2907 passengers, average load 30.6, load factor 62.4%
Frankfurt (E145) 2232, 23.5, 48%
Hamburg (E135) 1677, 17.6, 47.5%
Hannover (E135) 1004, 22.8, 61.6%
Munich (E145) 1471, 28.3, 57.7%
Milan Malpensa (E145), 1319, 25.4, 51.8%
Apart from Hannover, which was reduced from 6 x weekly to 5 x weekly for August, all load factors are slightly down on July.
The full bmi regional programme from BRS has now reported the first four month's passenger figures, albeit May was only a part month for some of the routes.
These are the load factors (%) for the six routes beginning with May and ending with August in each case.
Aberdeen 62.2, 63.9, 65.1, 62.4
Frankfurt 39.2, 48.8, 54.3, 48
Hamburg 39.7, 55.1, 49.7, 47.5
Hannover 36.4, 46.5, 55.4, 61.6
Munich 45.9, 50.6, 59, 57.7
Milan Malpensa 40.4, 52.2, 55.3, 51.8
So after May they all seem to be settling down in the 45%-65% range. Not brilliant by any means but as always the yields will be the deciding factor.
Thomson long haul
There are some posts in the Cardiff thread that touch on BRS Thomson long haul where both routes (Sanford and Cancun) are to be discontinued from next summer.
The hard landing of a TOM B 767 in the autumn of 2010 and the subsequent AAIB report (published last year) that drew attention to the number of 767 hard landings on runway 09 at BRS have been highlighted again in the CWL thread.
TOM continued to operate the 767 into BRS for three summers after the 2010 incident so it might be thought the subsequent cessation of long haul is more commercially motivated than operational.
In the summer of 2010 the Thomson MD Chris Browne said that BRS would be amongst the first airports to see the B 787 in service when the type made its first appearance in the UK at Farnborough. That didn't happen and any hopes that the 787 would be taking on the Florida and Mexico routes from the 767 next summer have been dashed, with the 767 no longer 'keeping the routes warm' for the Dreamliner in the future.
Whether the company now has concerns about the 787 and the BRS runway or whether they have decided simply that a market does not exist for long haul charter from the West Country is something that Thomson may not say publicly.
It's probably fair to suggest that the airport and those who use the airport will be hoping that the decision was a commercial one in respect of these particular routes rather than a question mark over the 787 using BRS at all in the future - by any airline.