Birmingham: CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Ray Finkle]

I think it's very unlikely that 10mppa will be reached, I'm hoping to get close to the 2008 record.

 

[Brummiegem]

I think it's very unlikely that 10mppa will be reached, I'm hoping to get close to the 2008 record.

I agree,I think it will be unlikely to reach 10 million this year.Losing Berlin and Stockholm has been a blow,but we just have to hope that no more routes/services are axed or reduced.
Hopefully those using the TXL and ARL flights will still use the DLH/SAS flights on offer,be it with a stop off.
On a positive note with FlyBE expanding and more capacity being added by other airlines such as DLH and AFR etc. things are not that bad.A few new routes would be appreciated.If a few are added over the winter and into next spring then just maybe the milestone might just be reached next year,but as always we will have to wait and see what happens!!!

 

[Ray Finkle]

June pax 960779 up 1.8% - rolling year 9409976 +5.2%

Not too bad considering there was less capacity from some airlines, Ryanair especially, than last June. I'll have a look at some routes this evening but judging by a quick look long haul had a pretty bad month, although it is generally the low season going east and most airports look to have suffered somewhat.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Air India had 4460 making a 52% LF. LHR saw a 7% drop to DEL.

Islamabad was down 29%. MAN was also down 29%

Istanbul was down 2%.

Dubai was down 6%. LGW, GLA and MAN all saw slight decreases too.

New York was down 6%. MAN-EWR also saw a 5% drop.

Turkmenistan saw a 7% increase.

The first month of Aegean to Athens saw 1253 giving a LF of roughly 62%. Not bad for a brand new route but it will need to improve, which it should do over July and August.

Not great overall but as said it's generally the low season for most routes with lots of airports seeing decreases. Turkish look to have stagnated somewhat around an 80-85% LF, I'd imagine if BHX want the extra 4x weekly flights it'll need a sustained period of 90%+. Berlin once again showed why it's being dropped at -29%, such a shame as Lufthansa looked to be doing so well, it remains to be seen what Germanwings will do with DUS when the CRJ's leave the fleet. Hurghada looks to be doing well with the extra flights seeing a 98% increase, Gothenburg saw a 17% increase, the extra capacity to CPH looks to be paying off with an increase of 30% and ironically ARN had one of it's best months at +17%. I won't mention the sun routes compared to EMA.

Source CAA stats.

 

[Hassaan]

Another year-on-year growth, although not quite hitting that million mark. Yeah maybe 10m is a bit ambitious but 2008's 9.6m should certainly be possible.

A 52% LF for Air India looks low to me. It's usually around the 80% mark.

 

[Ray Finkle]

1049499 pax up 4.5%.

Rolling total 9454990 up 5.4%.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Air India had 5984 (2271 ATQ and 3713 DEL) which I make a 65% LF.

Toronto 3134 +22%

Islamabad -11.9%, all flight to Pakistan from the UK (LHR, MAN & BHX) saw heavy minus figures.

Istanbul -4.5%

Turkmenistan up 2.5%

Dubai up 1%

New York -11%

Athens 2428.

Some nice increases on most of the business routes, Gothenburg was up 15%, some of the new Flybe routes, Porto, Florence etc look healthy and both Egypt and Morocco saw good increases.

Source: CAA stats.

 

[Brum X]

Good result for BHX, Great to see Air India going back up but whats happened to United ??????

 

[Ray Finkle]

It appears the USA had a bit of a bad month across the board, EDI - NYC was down 20%, GLA - NYC down 11%, MAN - EWR & JFK were both down 7.5%. A few other US cities from these airports also saw quite big drops so it's not just BHX.

 

[User0001]

There were a few weather cancellations due to bad storms at the USA end.

 

[thunderchild]

How is Reykjavik doing?

 

[Ray Finkle]

Rekjavik had 1604 pax. I'm not going to try and work out a load factor as I think Flybe may have had some cancellations and I'm not sure if Rekjavik was among them, I'll leave it to someone on another forum far more qualified than me.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Good result for BHX, Great to see Air India going back up.......

It's also good to see that the re-timing of EK39/40 throughout July didn't have too much of an impact.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Best July on record 🙂

Records Broken in July For Birmingham Airport

Birmingham Airport has recorded its highest July ever, with 1,051,052 passengers using the Midlands airport during the month. This is an increase of 4.6% over July last year and the second highest month ever recorded in the airport’s 75 year history.

This is the fourth consecutive record month this year and the first time the one million passenger mark has been broken at the airport since August last year. There was also a 7.7% increase in long haul passenger traffic with flights operating to Beijing, Dubai, Delhi, Egypt, Islamabad, Jamaica, Mexico, Newark and Toronto in July.

Commenting on this milestone month, the Airport’s Chief Executive, said, “July was a historic month for us. Not only did we achieve such great passenger numbers, we also celebrated our 75th anniversary and saw the first ever flight from China to a non-London airport arrive, and later depart on our newly extended runway to make its five thousand mile return journey to Beijing.”

Scheduled services that saw particular growth included Toulouse (+257.5%), Milan-Malpensa (+78.6%), Dubrovnik (+75.2%), Shannon (+58.9%), Stuttgart (+54.1%), Copenhagen (+47.7%), Jersey (+47.1%) and Hannover (+46.5%).

Charter destinations experiencing growth during the month were Italy (+31.9%), Portugal (+21.7%), Cyprus (+4.9%), Tunisia (+4.3%), Jamaica (+3%) and Mexico (+2.3%).

Scheduled traffic in July accounted 77.1% with charter making up the remaining 22.9%

July 2014 had 1.4% more passengers than the previous highest July in 2008.

April, May and June were also all record months this year.

http://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/meta ... rport.aspx

 

[Ray Finkle]

Aegean saw an 80% load factor in July, they also had a couple of A321's, hopefully they'll be back next summer.

Reykjavik saw a load factor of 70%. Florence was also 70% and Oporto was 86%.

 

[User0001]

Im sure I had seen Aegean will be announcing their Summer 2015 schedules soon. BHX is in on the plans.

 

[thunderchild]

I believe Aegean will start taking delivery of some new A320s next year so hopefully there could be some potential for increased frequency.

 

[Brummiegem]

A new record for pax numbers travelling through BHX.Over 1,104,800 pax used BHX in August,a 5% increase year on year.
Fantastic news :s_thumbsup

 

[Ray Finkle]

Busiest month ever 🙂

Some good increases on the likes of CDG, FRA, CPH etc... Long haul was up 1%, no doubt PIA's problems will be having an effect with the Saturday flight suspended and on a couple of weekends we didn't even see a Sunday flight so I guess any increase is a good one, if it hadn't have been for the Beijing flights it would probably have been down though. What about Turkmenistan at +38% :shok:

Overall it's shaping up to be a good year and hopefully we'll be near to the 2008 record of 9,627,589, to beat it would be great.

I don't think the airport will mind me pasting the whole article.

Birmingham Airport Records Busiest Month in its 75 Year History

08 September 2014

Birmingham Airport has recorded the busiest month in its 75 year history, as over one million passengers used the Midlands airport during August.

Passenger figures peaked at 1,104,831 last month, beating the previous record achieved back in August 2008, by 2.3%.

This is the fifth consecutive record-breaking month for the Airport, as April, May, June and July also saw previous records for the month smashed. Last month’s passenger numbers increased by 5.2% over August last year.

There was also a 1% increase in long haul passenger traffic with flights operating to Beijing, Dubai, Delhi, Egypt, Islamabad, Jamaica, Mexico, New York and Toronto in August.

Commenting on this milestone month, the Airport’s Chief Executive Paul Kehoe, said: “Achieving the busiest month in the Airport’s 75 year history is a proud moment, especially as it follows four consecutive months where passenger records have been broken.

“Passengers are voting with their feet and more and more are choosing to fly from Birmingham. The demand is clearly there, but we want to make sure this trend continues.

“We’ve invested significantly in recent years, including a newly extended runway, which allows departing aircraft to fly to more long haul destinations than ever before. The capability to serve more long haul destinations will play a key role in attracting more passengers and support future growth.”

Scheduled services that saw particular growth included Toulouse (+251.3%), Milan (+86.6%), Stuttgart (+70.5%), Dubrovnik (+68.3%), Aberdeen (53.6%), Jersey (+49.5%), Shannon (+49.4%) and Ashkhabad (+37.9).

Charter destinations experiencing growth during August were China (+100%), Italy (+37.8%), Mexico (+25%), Portugal (+22.4%), Cyprus (+12.6%) and Jamaica (+11.7%).

Scheduled traffic in August accounted for 77.3% with charter flights making up the remaining 22.7%.

http://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/meta ... story.aspx

 

[Brum X]

Great passengers numbers for BHX, and could we see another month over 1 million in September ??????

Airport was very busy when i used it both on the outbound and inbound flights, it really is now a 24 hour operation, even places like Costa coffee, WHSMith, Marks and Spencer, SPAR are all open at 3am in the morning and you even get one last chance to buy Duty free before you leave the Arrivals Hall.