Hi,
The
ACL Start of Season Report shows that seats are expected to be up by 8% compared to last Summer, so the increases are likely to continue, but not always this large.
The number of scheduled movements is up by 4%, with 21 extra movements per day in the runway capacity profile. Gatwick is planning a record number of busy hours this Summer: 3 hours per day have been scheduled with 55 movements.
The biggest increases in services are from Easyjet (taking over the FlyBe slots), Norwegian and British Airways, but there are many other airlines also offering more seats, including Emirates, Vueling, Meridiana and Turkish.
It looks as though a number of the larger UK airports (including London City, Luton, Stansted, Manchester) will see some pretty decent increases this Summer. Some airports will finally start breaking the records that were set in 2007/8, at long last...