Stansted overtakes Manchester !
 

CAA figures released today show that Stansted has now overtaken Manchester on annual pax total.

Heathrow - 67,784,236 up 2.7%
Gatwick - 32,286,394 up 5.9%
Stansted - 21,580,666 UP 7.2%
Manchester - 21,559,786 up 5.3%
Birmingham - 8,894,703 down 1.5%
Glasgow - 8,668,460 up 5.3%
Luton - 8,457,422 up 21.6%
Edinburgh - 8,219,287 up 6.6%
Newcastle - 4,971,115 up 14.3%
Bristol - 4,825,330 up 14.1%
East Mids - 4,332,600 up 1.8%

Ian

Will Luton be 5th by year end?

Anyone that can get a bag onto the conveyor within 30 minutes can overtake Manchester.

Add the proximity and the interaction of their airspace, Luton and Stansted will combined, overtake Gatwick!

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And Manchester's total pax fell by how much?

Oh, look. It rose by 5.3%.

You know, some airports would be quite happy with that degree of "failure"......

A few facts that seem relevant to this topic:

Department for Transport studies have said that regional airports like Manchester are set to grow more rapidly than the major London hubs where the air travel market is "more mature". Latest CAA figures support this with Manchester growing more rapidly than Heathrow and Gatwick and it is predicted that by 2015 the number of pax flying from Manchester will double to around 40 million every year - nine million more pax than Gatwick currently handles.

The original poster was only quoting CAA stats but appears to have hit a few exposed nerves.

Centre cities

I'm loving the NCL/BRS battle going on for 9th and 10th, c'mon BRS - Do em!:} were cathching on last months figs

Belfast Intl should be in the top 10 but the CAA don't have the stats in for June 04-June 05 yet. From May 04-May 05 though it was 4,622,016 (up 14%).

WATABENCH, a pathetic airport like BRS won't overtake NCL :cool:

I see DurhamTeesValleyAirport managed 92449 pax in June 05 ;) Way to go MME!!

mmeteesside

Watch out everybody, Grahams willy waving again:rolleyes:

WATABENCH, couldnt resist it :E , but it's good to see the UK regional airports doing well :ok:

Couldnt agree more mate, now lets both group together and take the pee out of CWLs dismal performance!! that should get Windsheers back up ha ha
Only joking windypops!:}

Back to the thread title - STANSTED will never take over MANCHESTER.
What has STN got ? A lot of FR rubbish and european traffic and little else to offer.
MAN has 3 terminals, and is a major international airport, with a major BA base.
Never heard anything so ridiculous.

No, but it has overtaken it in terms of passenger numbers. Cold hard fact.

...and I reckon we'll be doing 40 million by 2010, off ONE runway with TWO terminal buildings.

Things could get a little tight after that, have to start thinking about a second runway and maybe a 3rd building...

Cheers,
TheOddOne

Robt100 - what does having more terminals show?

JFK has more terminals than Heathrow, but who handles more traffic?

Simply put, STN is going to be bigger than MAN - face facts.

Am I not right in thinking that Stansted is getting a bit tight at certain times of the day, particularly with nightstoppers? That would suggest that the number of based EZY/FR aircraft will not increase by much, which may affect the figures, although STN do seem to be doing well bringing in foreign airlines these days, so the effect may be masked.

It will also be interesting to see how the figures look at the end of October. Although it isn't as pronounced as it used to be, Manchester has much more of a summer peak than Stansted, and so they may catch up over the next 3 months.

Either way they are both doing pretty well. I remember my first visit to Stansted as a teenage spotter 20 years ago when literally nothing moved during our 2 hour visit!

RobT100
So Manchester has 3 terminals but where do you get the major BA base? From BA mainline as such pulled out of Manchester some years ago. The major long haul out of Manchester must be PIA, and looking around the Airport Jet2 seems to have more aircraft about than BA these days even BA citiexpress are cutting back aircraft at Manchester