Derry/Londonderry 2

[cuthere]

There hasn’t been a charter from LDY to Iceland before.

[Fly757X]

Originally Posted by cuthere

There hasn’t been a charter from LDY to Iceland before.

Probabaly in reference to Seville last year. I’ve heard loads this time are excellent.

[cuthere]

Seville/Iceland, Iceland/Seville. I see the similarities!

Good to hear re: loads.

[virginblue]

Originally Posted by Fly757X

CAA stats for December 2018:

Passengers per route:

- GLASGOW = 1055 = -83%
- EDINBURGH = 6 261 = (NEW)

Interesting.. Edinburgh generated almost exactly as many passengers in December 2018 as Glasgow in December 2017 (if my calculator works properly, GLA was 6.206, EDI now is 6.261). So overall traffic to Scotland has increased by 1.000 pax.

[cuthere]

Huge diaspora in the Central Belt, as well as a lot of travel for football. It’s also noticeable, certainly around Christmas, the number of Scottish accents in Derry’s pubs and restaurants, so it seems to be two-way demand, which is great to see.

[owenc]

Is it? I see way more English people in Derry and Northern Ireland than Scots.

scots don’t come here.

[cuthere]

Good for you Owen. Good for you. I am speaking from my experience as someone who is old enough to go to the pub, and lives in Derry. No idea why there are so many English in Limavady.

[Fly757X]

Loganair have changed their S19 schedule to 6 weekly (previously down from 8) and changed the type during the week to the SF34. The ERJ stays on the weekend flights.

BMI times have also been slightly altered, BM1507 departs at 1725 everyday and BM1501 is 0705 everyday except for Friday where it is 0720.

[Fly757X]

Originally Posted by Fly757X

CAA stats for December 2018:

LDY movements:

363 (2018) = +3.42%

351 (2017)

Passenger numbers:

16,239 (2018) = +6%

15,387 (2017)

Passengers per route:

- GLASGOW = 1055 = -83%
- LIVERPOOL = 5124 = -6%
- LONDON (STN) = 3840 = +1%
- EDINBURGH = 6 261 = (NEW)

Load Factors:

-GLASGOW = 65%
-LIVERPOOL = 80%
-LONDON (STN) = 66%
-EDINBURGH = 79%

Year end Passenger Number: ~185843 (-8.4%)

Average Load Factor: 78.6%

Year end movements:

6330 (2018) 22.8% Increase

5156 (2017)

[buzz_hornet]

https://www.derryjournal.com/news/ne...iYnoR8YZBSW-tQ



Manchester with BMI

[cuthere]

Superb news!

[Fly757X]

Originally Posted by buzz_hornet

https://www.derryjournal.com/news/ne...iYnoR8YZBSW-tQ



Manchester with BMI

Personally would’ve liked to have seen BHX. Will be interesting to see if it impacts LPL much however with its dismal frequencies at the minute it might work out fine. I personally thought EDI/GLA would kill each other off... Not yet anyway! Great news to hear!

[cuthere]

As BMI have a large presence at BRS, and LDY has no connections in the southwest, will they look at there too?

[Amelia Earhart]

LDY will again have 5 domestic routes (STN, GLA, EDI, LPL, MAN) which is the most it previously ever simultaneously had (STN, LPL PIK, BRS, BHX).

The PSO seems to have been amended to allow the aircraft to do the MAN route between the STN flights. Could BHX not have been squeezed in to?

What chances of BHX now if not using the PSO aircraft?

[cuthere]

They have a roughly five hour window between 11am and 4pm where they could utilise the aircraft (crew permitting), so squeezing in another route may be challenging. Unless they amend the times of the STN flights, it doesn’t look possible.

[Fly757X]

Originally Posted by cuthere

They have a roughly five hour window between 11am and 4pm where they could utilise the aircraft (crew permitting), so squeezing in another route may be challenging. Unless they amend the times of the STN flights, it doesn’t look possible.

Should actually be closer to 5 O’Clock as seen on a Sunday.

[cuthere]

You think they’re going to schedule a 30 minute turnaround on a daily basis? Even with that, it’d be very difficult to add an additional return flight to BHX.

[Fly757X]

Originally Posted by cuthere

You think they’re going to schedule a 30 minute turnaround on a daily basis? Even with that, it’d be very difficult to add an additional return flight to BHX.

STN could end up going earlier like it did in S17? Push it to 40mins?

[cuthere]

Well, I’m all for additional routes, so whatever it takes!

[Amelia Earhart]

Was there not the demand for a 3rd rotation to Stansted? At one stage there used to be 150K pax p.a. on the STN route. There is currently about 50K pax. A 3rd rotation could have increased that to 75K which is similar to the number carried by Ryanair after they reduced Stansted to one rotation.

I have to confess I have had to fly from BFS as the times from LDY did not suit. An extra rotation would have made the difference.

MAN and BHX could have been added on another plane. Of course that would depend on BMI regional having an available plane.....