UK CAA provisional November traffic figures are
here. I was interested to look at how the Cork-London city pair has performed, as the Cityjet service beds down.
November 2015:
Cork-Heathrow: 29502 pax (+1.2% on last year)
Cork-Gatwick: 9759 pax (-3.2%)
Cork-Stansted: 24453 pax (-3.9%)
Cork-London City: 4887 pax
Total Cork-London in November 2015: 68601 pax (+6%)
Total Cork-London in November 2014: 64700 pax.
So the Cork-London market grew by just short of 4000 passengers. This can be down to multiple factors (including any capacity changes), but Cityjet stimulating demand is certainly likely to be one of the factors.
However... I think Cityjet operated about 72 ORK-LCY round trips in November (please correct me if I am wrong). That's 72 x 2 x 95 seats = 13680 seats, so (assuming the CAA provisional figures are correct) a load factor of 36%.
I realise that November was only the second month of the Cityjet service, but I still find that a bit worrying. And the reported comments from Cityjet in recent weeks to the effect that "we're happy that we are getting leisure passengers but we need the support of business passengers" don't suggest that there is a high yield to compensate for the low load.
This would want to pick up soon...