August CAA Stats
A mediocre month all in all, passengers down 6.9%, although they remain up by 3.6% over the rolling year. VLM managed a combined average load of about 14 passengers per flight, meaning an average load factor of just 28%. Presumably the yields are reasonable, as it is still bookable throughout the winter. As has already been bought up VLM could do with advertising the route more widely in and around Southampton.
Milan averaged 61 passengers and Bastia averaged 81 passengers, which is not fantastic for the latter given it is an E195 route. However an E175 or Q400 would be a good match for it in the future.
The sun routes all performed well, which it now seems a certainty that ALC/AGP will not run through the winter (quite a few disappointed passengers on their fb page) we will hopefully find out the future of those routes in the summer when Flybe release S16 in October.