|
Post by expressflight on Sept 1, 2012 10:05:27 GMT
I'm sure that a 15° slew would require CAA ratification and could not be just company or aircraft specific as it would be promulgated via an amended Type A chart. As it involves a turn to starboard thought would have to be given to such things as ensuring that the church spire did not come into the new climb path etc.. I can well understand that SEN did want to put too many non-standard procedures into the approval package for the runway extension to avoid frightening the horses. Far better to accept some minor restrictions on aircraft range initially and then seek to get approval to alleviate the problem once everything else was operating smoothly.
I understand that the FAO departure times were decided upon partly to take advantage of the lower early morning temperatures.
|
|
|
Post by expressflight on Sept 14, 2012 12:31:11 GMT
August pax total is 90,962 which seems an excellent result.
|
|
|
Post by jon on Oct 15, 2012 14:00:00 GMT
75132 passengers for September.
|
|
|
Post by Thames Gateway on Dec 17, 2012 20:17:28 GMT
67,561 for October & 50,569 for November 2012.
|
|
|
Post by expressflight on Dec 18, 2012 8:54:34 GMT
On most routes I find it difficult to calculate load factors for November due to the fact that some probably changed their frequency during the month - school half term in the first week of the month. On the face of it the sunshine routes were generally good to very good, although PMI seemed poor. AMS performed well at 70% but BFS remained poor at 50% - very similar to October. The latter could become a problem in my view in the long term. DUB and WAT were also difficult to assess as a number of midweek rotations are prone to cancellation, but neither look to have been above 50% overall. JER looks to have achieved 50% which probably isn't too bad.
My general view? With the exception of the Irish routes, quite a satisfactory performance overall.
|
|
|
Post by devonian on Mar 15, 2013 16:13:29 GMT
February pax figures now available. 55,320 total. Quite impressive for a rotten old 28-day month!
|
|
|
Post by expressflight on Mar 16, 2013 8:49:48 GMT
Very good February numbers.
VCE would seem to have achieved a 68% load factor for its first three weeks of operation and DUB rose to 73% with its second highest monthly pax figure since the service began; only last July being higher.
BFS remains the route that spoils the party carrying only 7,438 pax and appropriate timetable pruning is being made to employ aircraft more profitably in the coming months.
The other current double-daily, AMS, is doing much better with 11,283 pax carried. I'm not sure if the Tuesday & Wednesday morning flights didn't operate throughout the month so I haven't been able to calculate an accurate load factor.
|
|
|
Post by tagron on Mar 16, 2013 9:47:29 GMT
With regard to the disappointing performance of BFS, it is interesting to compare the SEN schedules with those of the other London airports.
The first weekday departures from BFS to STN, LGW and LTN are respectively 0615, 0635 and 0700. Then there is a gap to mid-morning and the next LGW departure at 1015. The SEN service departs at 0855.
In the opposite direction, first departures to BFS from LTN, STN and LGW are respectively 0730, 0755 and 0830. The SEN departure at 0715 is the earliest and could fall in that time frame where the lack or rail services is an issue.
So the question is whether a better result would be achieved by using a BFS-based aircraft as is the case with the other routes, and whether EZY would consider it worth trying that option. A similar choice to the one made by EIR.
Presumably the February DUB figures were inflated by the rugby supporters.
|
|
|
Post by expressflight on Mar 16, 2013 11:33:36 GMT
I'm sure fans attending the rugby internationals helped the DUB figures, but a 48% increase on the January numbers seems to indicate some underlying growth as well. By comparison STN showed an 8% increase, LGW 3% and LHR 6% on their respective DUB routes vis a vis January.
At the very least it would suggest that the DUB route from/to SEN is becoming recognised as an attractive means of travelling between London and Dublin for sporting events etc..
|
|
|
Post by expressflight on Apr 16, 2013 15:30:07 GMT
The March 2013 provisional stats show a total of 65,138 passengers.
Easter bridged March and April this year making it more difficult to tease out each route's performance, but BFS picked up considerably with 9,786, while DUB maintained last month's improvement with 5,298. Generally the Mediterranean route numbers were, surprisingly, actually lower than in February when corrected for the extra three days in March. GVA performed well again with 3,923; I don't know if additional Easter flights operated but if not that gives a load factor of 83%.
|
|
|
Post by Thames Gateway on Jan 16, 2014 19:29:35 GMT
December provisional stats give 79,727 pax against 55,466 for last year. A healthy growth year on year, even with any diversions stripped out.
|
|
|
Post by expressflight on Feb 15, 2014 10:49:05 GMT
January 2014 provisional figures show a total of 59,904 pax compared with 45,974 for January 2013.
ALC, DUB and AMS all show growth of 21% over the same month in 2013 which is encouraging, but AGP is well down for some reason. A glance at the LGW-KRK route shows a drop of 17% on last year so it seems as if SEN is drawing pax onto its competing KRK route, and it's perhaps understandable that EZY don't want to see that dilution of their LGW route continued. SEN is just too attractive to the travelling public it seems unless there's another explanation.
SEN-TFS carried 2,306 pax but I'm not sure how many rotations that represents
|
|
|
Post by Thames Gateway on Mar 22, 2014 10:04:01 GMT
I see that for the first time EVER, passenger numbers have exceeded 1 million in a rolling year by end of February 2014, with 1,001,317 carried in last year. Feb Provisional Figures CAA
|
|
|
Post by devonian on Mar 22, 2014 23:22:46 GMT
I note that the Malaga A319 flight yesterday apparently had to land at Toulouse in order to take on fuel "due to runway restrictions at Southend". I wonder why they didn't have this issue last summer ?
|
|
|
Post by Thames Gateway on Mar 22, 2014 23:56:20 GMT
Increased popularity of the route?
|
|