Feb '16 CAA Stats
Passengers down 5% in Feb, hopefully they should be on the up from this point. An 8th based Flybe Q400 started around the beginning of this month, plus Aer Lingus Regional have also commenced flights to Cork now. Incidentally bookings for the first couple of weeks look pretty good, with quite a few loads of 45-50+ pax.
Mixed results of the domestic front, although I have noticed Newcastle has had fairly significant month on month increases consistently for a while now, so maybe a 4th daily flight will be added soon if all remains well. I expect Guernsey will decrease when Blue Islands become a Flybe franchise, it is pretty inevitable that some 'consolidation' will happen.
Hamburg averaged about 11 passengers for a 22% load factor, numbers for Antwerp are not shown. Düsseldorf averaged 28 passengers, for a 36% load factor. Either is pretty poor, but given Flybe have kept the route going and VLM has not dropped SOU (cut from 5 to 3 weekly from the summer though) they must be getting reasonable yields and/or onward bookings.
Flybe have started to release their winter schedule as well, with Düsseldorf, Munich and Lyon all operating daily, albeit the latter does so from the start of the ski season in December.