CAA Stats for MAN - March
Thank you for those figures Scottie Dog.
It's interesting to see the impact on passenger numbers when competition is introduced.
Berlin is a good example where Ryanair this last winter started to compete with easyjet.
On Hamburg, there was already competition when Ryanair introduced flights but both it and Berlin saw increases of just over or just under 100%.
Both those routes saw more passengers than the long established Dusseldorf service and showed that demand was there.
Krakow I believe was another destination with an extra carrier which produced a huge percentage increase.
Vienna's fall in passengers is disappointing but is perhaps is one of the short-stay city destinations that gets a bigger boost at Easter, which this year was in April.
Of course, too much competition and excess capacity can lead to problems as was the experience with Madrid some years ago when MAN went from no flights to 3 airlines in a short space of time.
What we don't readily know is how the additional competition was reflected in load factors for the airlines concerned or the impact on fares and therefore yield.