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Ryanair summer 2015
Loaded but few routes are bookable however the times are showing.
Only one route missing in April 15 compared to April 14 - Londonderry!
Malta appears to be staying despite East Mids starting and the late starters this year are yet to appear - PGF, REU & IBZ.
Only three based with two gaps and plenty of time and day changes plus quite a few Canaries flights operating by Canaries based aircraft. The number of flights are similar to 2014 at a guess I would say around one less per day.
Pete
Only one route missing in April 15 compared to April 14 - Londonderry!
Malta appears to be staying despite East Mids starting and the late starters this year are yet to appear - PGF, REU & IBZ.
Only three based with two gaps and plenty of time and day changes plus quite a few Canaries flights operating by Canaries based aircraft. The number of flights are similar to 2014 at a guess I would say around one less per day.
Pete
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Strange there are no flights to Budapest from Birmingham. Eastern Europe seems to be poorly served for a conurbation the size of the West Midlands. I suppose the presence of Luton down the M1 eats into the catchment area of any east european flights from Birmingham and only one of the big three low cost carriers at Birmingham (Monarch, Ryanair and Flybe) actually serves the east european market. Monarch are focused on the sunshine routes and Flybe on the shorter distance cross channel routes. Wizz and Easyjet are unfortunately yet to serve Birmingham.
Good that Flybe are starting to fly to Berlin from October but fares are not cheap!
Good that Flybe are starting to fly to Berlin from October but fares are not cheap!
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August 2014 passengers are up 5.2% to 1,104,831
This makes it the busiest ever month in the airport's history
Birmingham Airport Records Busiest Month in its 75 Year History - Birmingham Airport
This makes it the busiest ever month in the airport's history
Birmingham Airport Records Busiest Month in its 75 Year History - Birmingham Airport
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Fantastic news for BHX with its highest ever passenger figures and a good 5% plus increase overall.
Will be interesting however to see what happens next year as it looks a bit more uncertain.
Ryan Air showing a reduction from a base of 4 to a base of 3 planes ,however with more flts from overseas bases.
Monarch showing some reductions with their restructuring but TCX basing another plane.
Long Haul is up by just 1% but at least its up.Although no sign of any new scheduled destinations or increases to existing ones for S15 yet
Excellent increases to our main Euro airports such as CDG,FRA and Copenhagen etc.
TOM increasing flights and too .. to use TUI Fly Evelop and also Air Europa on top of their own flts.
So a mixed bag for next summer.
Nigel
Will be interesting however to see what happens next year as it looks a bit more uncertain.
Ryan Air showing a reduction from a base of 4 to a base of 3 planes ,however with more flts from overseas bases.
Monarch showing some reductions with their restructuring but TCX basing another plane.
Long Haul is up by just 1% but at least its up.Although no sign of any new scheduled destinations or increases to existing ones for S15 yet
Excellent increases to our main Euro airports such as CDG,FRA and Copenhagen etc.
TOM increasing flights and too .. to use TUI Fly Evelop and also Air Europa on top of their own flts.
So a mixed bag for next summer.
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Highest ever passenger total!
What are the chances of a third month with 1m+ passengers passing through the airport.
With July and August already achieved, if August's 5% increase were to be mained in September it would push the 2013 total of 975,445 just over the seven figure mark...
And would three consecutive months of 1m+ passengers be another record?
With July and August already achieved, if August's 5% increase were to be mained in September it would push the 2013 total of 975,445 just over the seven figure mark...
And would three consecutive months of 1m+ passengers be another record?
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Monty Gordo
July, August and September 2005 is the only other year where three consecutive months exceeded one million pax in row, I believe.
I have not really done any estimates for September but a million should be possible.
j636
I am sure the booking engine has been updated in the last 30 minutes and it seems Reus and Londonderry are the chopped routes as Perpignan, Ibiza and Trieste are now on sale July and August only.
A reduction on 2014 but not much and one less based I think but will check that later.
Pete
July, August and September 2005 is the only other year where three consecutive months exceeded one million pax in row, I believe.
I have not really done any estimates for September but a million should be possible.
j636
I am sure the booking engine has been updated in the last 30 minutes and it seems Reus and Londonderry are the chopped routes as Perpignan, Ibiza and Trieste are now on sale July and August only.
A reduction on 2014 but not much and one less based I think but will check that later.
Pete
Its been a while since TCX increased at BHX, and let's face it FR is no great loss. Shame about MON though.
In my eyes, the glass is still nearer half full than half empty.
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I don't think you should have too much of a go at FR. They wanted to expand the base but being in the old T2 means that there is a limit on how many stands they could actually use and maintain the 25 minute turnrounds. 4 based is just about the limit the current layout can handle so any growth could only come from away based flights running between the home based waves. Hardly surprising that their interest has gone elsewhere.
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They seem to contradict themselves..if they say they can handle 4 planes then why are they seemingly cutting the base to 3 ?
They load some of their planes on the 20s remotes and also sometimes of the 70s when they park a load in the winter.
They have cut back markedly over recent years so I suspect that might be more to do with operational reasons..ie they want a larger base for next to nothing and BHX have said no , but thats just my guess.
Nigel
They seem to contradict themselves..if they say they can handle 4 planes then why are they seemingly cutting the base to 3 ?
They load some of their planes on the 20s remotes and also sometimes of the 70s when they park a load in the winter.
They have cut back markedly over recent years so I suspect that might be more to do with operational reasons..ie they want a larger base for next to nothing and BHX have said no , but thats just my guess.
Nigel
Nigel
Ryanair contradicting themselves?? Surely not!
If anyone read back through their press releases over, say, a couple of years they would be littered with half truths and spin which frankly leave some of the iffy stuff that politicians come out with in the shade!
It's a shame that today's journalists by and large lazily print press releases verbatim, without ever checking the "facts" or questioning their content. If they bothered to, they may well find that the claims of many businesses, not just airlines, simply don't hold water.
They seem to contradict themselves..if they say they can handle 4 planes then why are they seemingly cutting the base to 3 ?
If anyone read back through their press releases over, say, a couple of years they would be littered with half truths and spin which frankly leave some of the iffy stuff that politicians come out with in the shade!
It's a shame that today's journalists by and large lazily print press releases verbatim, without ever checking the "facts" or questioning their content. If they bothered to, they may well find that the claims of many businesses, not just airlines, simply don't hold water.
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Interesting that Birmingham handled more pax than Edinburgh in August, but Edinburgh's total for 2014 should still be higher than B'ham despite the loss of Virgin Little Red (Which was starting to do well)
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With regards to your comment re journalists you should understand that today newspapers employ very few journalists and these are generally retained for the more cerebral work. I very much doubt that the press releases to which you refer to every pass through the hands of a journalist. They come in from Ryanair and whoever and are input into the system without any checking. This is not the fault of journalists, it is the fault of newspaper managers and owners who have stripped staffing levels to the bone in order to maintain fat profits.
I know this is slightly off-topic but I would like ppruners to understand how these airline, aiports and routes stories get into both local and national print.
I base my comments after having worked for 50 years in the industry, mostly on newspapers. And looking at newspapers today, i am glad i am not still in the industry.
I know this is slightly off-topic but I would like ppruners to understand how these airline, aiports and routes stories get into both local and national print.
I base my comments after having worked for 50 years in the industry, mostly on newspapers. And looking at newspapers today, i am glad i am not still in the industry.
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Totally agree with you Monty Gordo, I did the same, glad I am out of it now. If you or I had written some of the stuff that is printed today and on TV news, I am sure we would have had our a**es kicked. It makes me so sad to see how the media and printing industries have declined to these depths.
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Thomson S15
A quick look at the schedule and it appears that 7 aircraft are required on some days, including the long-haul B787
A welcome return from Air Europa B737-800s from Palma and Nouvelair A320s from Enfidha, both on Wednesday mornings for Thomson
A quick look at the schedule and it appears that 7 aircraft are required on some days, including the long-haul B787
A welcome return from Air Europa B737-800s from Palma and Nouvelair A320s from Enfidha, both on Wednesday mornings for Thomson
TUE OHY A321 f/t AYT 08:10/09:20 (Olympic Hols have seats on this flight)
WED GMI B737 f/t IBZ 13:00/14:30
THU GMI B737 f/t NBE 13:45/15:15
THU TBA ---- f/t DLM 19:40/20:45 (Olympic Hols have seats on this flight)
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Aegean Athens & August pax
Aegean
Great news - bookable twice a week in 2015 from the last Sunday in March and other day of service changes from Tuesday to Wednesday.
August passenger figures
Source: CAA Provisional data
August 1103955 + 5.2% - Rolling year 9508757 +5.7%
ATM's 8919 +5.5% rolling year 87728 +5%
Emirates 48916 - average 394 pax per flight, load factor 92% I think is a record monthly passenger figure for the route.
Air India was only slightly down when adjusting for 34 rotations this August compared to 36 in 2013.
PIA much improved on their recent load factor but at the expense of frequencies, which now see it just operating twice weekly. August down 27% but load factor 78%.
Turkish and Turkmenistan were also both up.
Paris was ridiculous up 8% at 31541 with a load factor of over 90%.
Frankfurt was again over 30000 averaging 124 pax at 80%.
ATH managed 137 pax at 81% and KEF 67 pax at 77%.
I know it was August and if you can't fill flights then you might as well forget it but certainly a good month for number-crunching.
Pete
Great news - bookable twice a week in 2015 from the last Sunday in March and other day of service changes from Tuesday to Wednesday.
August passenger figures
Source: CAA Provisional data
August 1103955 + 5.2% - Rolling year 9508757 +5.7%
ATM's 8919 +5.5% rolling year 87728 +5%
Emirates 48916 - average 394 pax per flight, load factor 92% I think is a record monthly passenger figure for the route.
Air India was only slightly down when adjusting for 34 rotations this August compared to 36 in 2013.
PIA much improved on their recent load factor but at the expense of frequencies, which now see it just operating twice weekly. August down 27% but load factor 78%.
Turkish and Turkmenistan were also both up.
Paris was ridiculous up 8% at 31541 with a load factor of over 90%.
Frankfurt was again over 30000 averaging 124 pax at 80%.
ATH managed 137 pax at 81% and KEF 67 pax at 77%.
I know it was August and if you can't fill flights then you might as well forget it but certainly a good month for number-crunching.
Pete