Air Wales / Baby
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Air Wales / Baby
Can anyone provide up to date info/stats (and of course any rumours) on how the Baby flights operated by Air Wales are doing? Still particularly interested by BFS-CWL... are Air Wales doing better in this agreement than they were at BHD?
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CAA stats for international routes are available up to the end of November 2004. These show the following pax numbers for scheduled services on CWL-ORK-CWL for the past five months (anyone interested can of course go back even further).
Nov – 2533 – average load 29 – 61%
Oct – 3157 – average load 35 - 73%
Sept – 3007 – average load 35 – 73%
Aug – 3584 – average load 40 – 84%
July – 3293 – average load 37 – 77%
I calculated these figures on the basis that the CWL-ORK route is operated by Air Wales on behalf of bmibaby, using ATR 42 equipment, with a daily rotation seven days a week, plus extra rotations on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays.
They seem to bear out Tom’s and Glynn’s observations. It appears to have been an excellent move by baby to use Air Wales’s smaller aircraft on this route, and hopefully it is working out well for everyone, including pax, with additional rotations that give more flexibility.
As for CWL-BFS-CWL, I believe one daily rotation is operated by bmibaby themselves using 733s (or 735s?) and the other daily rotation is operated by Air Wales on their behalf using ATR 42s. I think that this arrangement only commenced at the start of the winter schedules at the end of October last.
Prior to that there was one daily bmibaby 733 rotation, except Satudays. Domestic route CAA stats are only available until the end of October 2004. Out of interest the figures for the four months up to and including last October show the following monthly pax totals.
October – 4306
September – 4575
August – 5603
July - 4896
Nov – 2533 – average load 29 – 61%
Oct – 3157 – average load 35 - 73%
Sept – 3007 – average load 35 – 73%
Aug – 3584 – average load 40 – 84%
July – 3293 – average load 37 – 77%
I calculated these figures on the basis that the CWL-ORK route is operated by Air Wales on behalf of bmibaby, using ATR 42 equipment, with a daily rotation seven days a week, plus extra rotations on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays.
They seem to bear out Tom’s and Glynn’s observations. It appears to have been an excellent move by baby to use Air Wales’s smaller aircraft on this route, and hopefully it is working out well for everyone, including pax, with additional rotations that give more flexibility.
As for CWL-BFS-CWL, I believe one daily rotation is operated by bmibaby themselves using 733s (or 735s?) and the other daily rotation is operated by Air Wales on their behalf using ATR 42s. I think that this arrangement only commenced at the start of the winter schedules at the end of October last.
Prior to that there was one daily bmibaby 733 rotation, except Satudays. Domestic route CAA stats are only available until the end of October 2004. Out of interest the figures for the four months up to and including last October show the following monthly pax totals.
October – 4306
September – 4575
August – 5603
July - 4896
