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Post by pug on Feb 18, 2009 17:55:02 GMT
Tried accessing them on the CAA site but for some reason i cannot open the documents...
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Post by Humberside on Feb 18, 2009 19:05:43 GMT
Monthly passenger figures off 22285, down 4.3%. That might sound bad, and is bad, but a single digit percentage decrease makes HUY one of the countries better performing airports. Thats how bad things are.
Aberdeen – 2776, up 2%
Innsbruck – 459, up 62%. Average load 45.9 passengers per flight on a Fokker 70 which is poor
Amsterdam – 9673 – down 12%
Alicante – 1390 – down 6%. Average load 173 passengers on a B737-800, which I think seats 189
Lanzarote – 2049 – down 11%. Average load 227 (assuming a New Years Day flight, and taking into account a MAN diversion for the inbound flight on the 8th)
Tenerife – 2511 – up 36%. Average load 251.1 per flight which cant be right unless there were more than 10 one-way flights in January
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Post by pug on Feb 18, 2009 19:12:28 GMT
Nearby competition suffered something like 22% decline did it not?
The AMS is worrying but i would assume that was down to the flight cuts between Christmas and New Year?
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Post by Humberside on Feb 18, 2009 21:30:21 GMT
They will have had an impact though I doubt thats the only reason for the fall since most of the Christmas cuts will have been in the December figures. Overall AMS carried 1259 less passengers in January than Jan 08, or an average of 40 less passengers per day per one way flight. Ouch.
Unfortuantely I cant compare with AMS-MME or NWI yet - those two are probably the markets most like HUY
DSA was down 16.7% compared to January 2008, with 51598, more than double what we handled
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Post by pug on Feb 19, 2009 10:48:44 GMT
Ah yes i dont know why i was thinking December... Were there more flights last January though? Perhaps 4xdaily? Add diversions too and i suppose the economic slow down could have impacted the leisure pax on it, if so i would assume yields are still good from oil and associated traffic so perhaps hasnt lost too much?
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Post by expressflight on Feb 22, 2009 10:14:46 GMT
Humberside, is my maths up the creek or are things not quite that bad on the HUY-AMS?
Surely a reduction of 1259 pax for the month is around only 20 pax each way per day in total, not 40 pax per day per one way flight.
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Post by Humberside on Feb 22, 2009 19:52:11 GMT
Well spotted, it is only the equivalent of 20 passengers per day each way
Which while still concerning isnt as bad as my original dogdy calculation showed
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Post by pug on Feb 23, 2009 11:24:33 GMT
I say again though, the loss of those 20 pax per flight will be down to the cancellations and diversions during jan, perhaps with some decline in leisure travellers. If they are still offering 4xdaily over the summer then i would assume yields are still high.
It is no whimsicle remark when they say that HUY is their most successful route in the UK outside of the big cities, alot of traffic is generated by the shipping oil and gas and offshore companies that yields remain high. Add to that the petition to keep the route when it was rumoured to be moving to DSA....
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