Originally Posted by
fl dutchman
Airport Passenger numbers.
I have not been able understand some of the passenger figures recently. If you look at the arrivals and departure board the airport seems much more busy than it was in the last couple of years. Despite this passenger figures are supposedly falling or increasing by a very small amount.
I realise the CAA stats are very unreliable and would suggest that some of the Newcastle figures shown are simply very wrong.
Tonight I have looked at the airports own figures for June 2016 and they seem to be wrong also.
For example the domestic figures show just 9691 for June 2016 compared to 102414 for 2015. Thats a drop of nearly 93000 pax.
That cant be correct.
IT figures show a drop of about 5000 pax which is possible
Scheduled International is up by about 33000 pax which could be likely and is possibly correct.
In total a reduction of nearly 64000 is shown a drop of about 12%.
It seems that the domestic figures are the ones causing the issue.
Perhaps the real figure for domestic should be not 9691 but 96910 instead it would seem more realistic.
So if you add the difference which is 87219 to the total published you get a new overall total for June 2016 of 530521 an increase of about 10% over June 2015.
If thats correct its not a bad increase.
Rather worrying that even the airports own published figures seem unreliable.
I have tweeted the airport regarding the figures published on its website and you are indeed correct, they replied this morning with the correct numbers and said they would get it changed. The domestic figures are wrong, they should be 96,941 for the month. That's a small drop but BA have cancelled a few flights recently and are also using smaller 319 aircraft on usually 3 of the daily flights now instead of where previously would be 320 aircraft. The oil industry is still suffering too so that will affect domestic figures too. But the end total for the month is 530,552 passengers.