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Old 7th Oct 2013, 11:02
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Jack1985
 
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Gdansk, Vilnius, Krakow and Wroclaw all have frequency reductions compared to what was bookable untill recently. Of course both Wizzair and Ryanair operated the routes last Winter so that's going to be some reduction in capacity. Cork now handling a million passengers less than its 2008 peak of 3.25 million! Recession or no recession that's a worrying statistic.
Winter 11/12 - W6 operated GDN, VNO, WAW, WRO and POZ at 1pw from Nov to Mar with an increase to 2PW on those routes in late Dec/early Jan for the xmas period. KTW operated 2PW the whole year that equates to 7 weekly flights from Wizz that Winter, FR on the routes (GDN, KRK, VNO, WMI, WRO) will operate a total of 9 weekly flights (also increased during the xmas period), compared to Winter 11/12 FAO and AGP were operated by FR each at 2 weekly, those have been replaced by a 4 weekly service to EMA. Simply after having far in excess capacity last Winter, Ryanair are now catering for the demanded market this winter. There have been no reductions on services to Wroclaw as you pointed out.

So far from a massive reduction in capacity, we're going to be fairly on par with Winter 11/12 all going well, as EIR have increased flights for this Winter and the reduction for EI against that period, the replacement of W6 with FR (with an actual increased capacity there) should see us inline with capacity during that period if not slightly ahead.

The figure, 1M down. We were basically that close last year? Look up the road you'll notice Shannon is down over 2M since its peak, far from worrying its inline with the collapse in Irish traffic. I believe instead of constantly focusing on downward trends in traffic on this forum, we look forward to 2014 with an optimistic view for a change.
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