With all the doom and gloom, I thought I'd have a look at some UK-ORK traffic figures from the CAA. October 2014 is the latest month available on-line.
Route Oct 2014 Oct 2013
BIRMINGHAM CORK 6218 6268
BRISTOL CORK 3529 3372
EAST MIDS CORK 3030 0
EDINBURGH CORK 3336 3604
GATWICK CORK 10664 10272
GLASGOW CORK 1543 2143
HEATHROW CORK 33306 34942
LIVERPOOL CORK 6895 5643
MANCHESTER CORK 7825 6641
NEWCASTLE CORK 1693 0
STANSTED CORK 23516 20786
Two new routes gained, both of which seem to have grown the market, EMA has not impacted BHX at all, which I might have expected. STN has seen some good growth, but LGW and LHR are static. Similarly LPL has had growth as has MAN. The effect of these FR routes is interesting, it seems to grow the market overall, what this does to yields on incumbent routes is a guess, but seats still seem to be filled.
Clearly ORK has a good market to the UK, 101,555 one-way segments travelled between ORK and UK airports, over a million passengers a year.