Well Helen jet2 handle their own bags - So it should not take much recruiting by BB to be adequate...As you point out BLK have been recruiting for a while.
Air fairs hold up well at BLK due to high load factors - I bet that Jet2 increase frequency to Alicante and Malaga and possibly a new route later..As Helen points out BLK are recruiting and BB would not do that for no return.
Not sure jet2 have done much of that - At times they are quite expensive..

You are right of course over the economy being in the news daily - Well BLK have weathered the downturn much better than most would have expected.

Well Ernest, Malaga remains the same next summer at 4x weekly but Alicante is cut from 4x weekly to 3x weekly with the Friday service switched to Tenerife.

TSR2 - I meant to say rather than expand to the East med - Jet2 IMO would restore frequency to Alicante first...I would love to see Corfu from BLK - But can't see it yet and when the upturn comes Alicante, faro and Malaga are proven goldmines.

August Pax Numbers
 

Total Pax Aug 2011 - 37,367 (-6% on Aug 2010)

Total Pax Rolling Year - 238,209 (-4.4% on 2010)

Faro - 4,659 (-6% on 2010) - 92.6% Load Factor
Alicante - 5128 (+6% on 2010) - 96.2% Load Factor
Malaga - 4825 (0% on 2010) - 95.9% Load Factor
Murcia - 3700 (-8% on 2010) - 96.2% Load Factor
Palma - 5729 (-8% on 2010) - 92.2% Load Factor
Jersey - 2343 (-1% on 2010) - 88.0% Load Factor
Belfast - 4937 (-12% on 2010) - 64.2% Load Factor

Just been analysing the above August statistics.

If you add the passenger numbers together for the stated destinations it totals 31,321.
Now add 2,097 for IOM, and 2,878 for Dublin passengers and that gives a total of 36,296 yet the monthly total is 37,367.

So where are the missing 1071 passengers. Anyone any ideas ?

There were 1149 passengers to and from Gas/Oil rigs.

Thanks Scottish Flyer, I never thought of that !

Anyone still out there??


S:confused::confused:

Yes but ............. zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yep Sandgrown....But like TSR2m what is there to talk about?.

I think Blackpool is the only Jet2 base with no new routs, yet BB have felt the need to recruit...Wonder why?

This must be in part why Jet2 and others are not expanding at Blackpool..It seems that the once great Blackpool is now a departure point and not a destination for holiday makers from continental Europe.
JFK?

Yes Blackpool should be marketed - That would benefit the town and the airport - But what about the Blackpool weather?..Baring the odd heatwave, the weather is normally abysmal.
SOURCE: BBC News - Blackpool: Why isn't it marketed to foreign tourists?

lots of brits go to france so why not them..........
i can see it now
visit le dump a la nord........

Dada: Bit unfair that, it has sharpened up its act recently and is not that bad to visit. Needs more but remarks like that don't help.:=

je suis just joshing. the seaward side now looks rather nice, its the inward side that wants demolishing.

Blackpool prom looks okay these days but its the
hinterland that lets it down or if you like tacky its great.
It does always smell of fish and piss.

MM

Irrespective of the marketability of Blackpool as a destination to foreign visitors, the consistently high load factors on the existing destinations would suggest there is a reasonably large demand for flights from Blackpool from UK residents alone. I would have thought that additional destinations would have been forthcoming even on a 'short season' basis, although I realise there may be logistical problems with aircraft availability in high season.

I am surprised that Squires Gate warrants inclusion in these august web pages. Titchy airport. Zero potential.

The potential is huge, it's just never been developed yet.

I recently flew from BLK for the first time in ages. What a surreal experience! The departure screen had flights for that day, the day after, and the day after that, there was so much room. No catering facilities were open. In an hour and a half I only saw 4 staff and the 11 other passengers on my Let 410 flight. But what struck me most was, as silverhawk says, the undeveloped potential of the place.

I've long bemoaned the evolution of airports into shopping centres. However, if Blackpool Airport were turned into a shopping centre, at least it would be full of people, even if they weren't flying anywhere. In the evenings it could be an entertainment centre for the local community and visitors to the town, with cinemas and restaurants, maybe a bowling alley or a concert hall. Something to get people through the door and using the space. Anything would be better than the empty shell it now is.

I admit it must have been a quiet time when I passed through. I'm sure the catering facilities would be open when a 733 is leaving. But it reminded me of the folly that were shops in the former Soviet Union which sold one thing and had acres of empty shelves. Surreal indeed.

You can polish a !!!! but it is still a !!!!