Last summer it was 8 x 319s and 3 x 320s. The most based was summer 2008 with 12 x 319s. In recent summers as with this summer it's been 11 based aircraft with 320s gradually replacing some 319s.
Any increase in overall passenger numbers this summer will come mainly from the larger Thomas Cook and easyJet aircraft. There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of additional rotations across the board. 20,000 passengers will be lost from the axing of the TOM transatlantic charters although about this number ought to be carried by the reinstated Aer Lingus Regional Shannon service.
Ryanair is slightly down on summer 2013 but there are additional Cork rotations and the short peak summer season service by SAS to Stockholm.
BRS should see a small annual increase in passenger numbers by the end of the year, much the same as has been the case in the previous four years.
The annual rise in passenger numbers in recent years has been achieved against the background of falling air transport movements at the airport.
2005 5,199,321 passengers 61,393 air transport movements
2006 5,710,230 65,827
2007 5,883,873 58,755
2008 6,228,656 60,070
2009 5,615,336 53,824
2010 5,723,432 53,799
2011 5,768,001 52,674
2012 5,916,258 50,659
2013 6,134,826 53,966
All stats courtesy of CAA
2013's rise in atms is slightly false in that the number was boosted by the Airbus Corporate Shuttle operated by bmi regional's 50-seat aircraft. In the first three months of 2014 atms are about 1.5% down on the same period last year, with passenger numbers up around 3.8% in the three months till the end of March.