Manchester: CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Scottie Dog]

March statistics are in post #1,334 and here is my analysis of the top 25 routes by passengers and percentage increase.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Movements for April, according to my daily logs, are up by 2.20%

I'll hopefully have the official airport stats by the 10th May.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Movements for April, according to my daily logs, are up by 2.20%

I'll hopefully have the official airport stats by the 10th May.

A bit slow, BHX known already 🙂

 

[Scottie Dog]

Here are the official airport statistics - at least I was fairly close!!

 

[IanFarquharson]

Here are the official airport statistics - at least I was fairly close!!

A record May figure so a good result considering the situation in the ME

 

[Scottie Dog]

April data from the CAA will now not be available until Wednesday 17th June. Ì am away at a meeting on Wednesday & Thursday and will provide my reports as soon as possible after that date.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Okay, I'm back and starting to catch-up on my backlog of statistical reports.

Firstly here are my calculations for load-factors on selected routes:

 

[Scottie Dog]

I'm rather playing catch-up at the moment due to a combination of factors, however here is another set of data for Manchester for April, based on the CAA records:

 

[Scottie Dog]

 

[IanFarquharson]

Great result to be up at all

Only seen BHX & MAN so far for June

June



BHX – 1,365,748 up 0.33%

MAN – 3,058,810 up 1.30%



YTD



BHX – 6,368,775 up 1.65%

MAN – 14,924,094 up 1.04%



Rolling 12 months



BHX – 13,767,564 up 3.65%

MAN – 32,233,363 up 2.22%

 

[David_itl]

i know this thread is mainly about passengers but do we know what's driving the enormous freight increases? It's not as though there's ben heaps of additional long-haul widebodies to stimulate the market or is the change of type for Emirates enabled more freight to be carried ex-Manchester rather than sent by road to other airport?

 

[Scottie Dog]

That's a very good question and one that I would also like to hear the answer to.

 

[EGCC_MAN]

The answer is increased deployment of the Boeing 777, a magnificent underbelly freight-hauler. The A380 in particular is especially poor on this metric, with one relatively small hold needing to accommodate luggage for two full deckloads of passengers. Operators frequently using B777's (and A350's) at MAN lately include UAE, QTR, ETD, CPA, SIA, PIA, VIR.

On the downside, it does show just how much MAN freight is lost to trucking to other airports in more peaceful times.

 

[David_itl]

I asked Mr Co-Pilot of Microsoft Airways the differential between A380 and 777 - 37 cubic metres then convert that nto tonnage.

"37 m³ ≈ 7.4 tonnes (typical airline cargo density)" - that would only equate to 1,332 tonnes on a 3 daily basis. The increase is almost 3,000 tonnes. I'm not sure the extra 1,600 tonnes could be explained by adding a couple of flights a week on frequency or going A350 to 777 on some routes bearing in mind that we have lost 2 based A330s by Aer Lingus.

Hopefully this is an economic pointer that a tidy amount of money can made on cargo which may make other airlines re-evaluate routes as cargo won't mind going circuitous routes to a destination even if the human cargo does

 

[Scottie Dog]

Another month goes past and here are my calculations for load-factors on specific routes in May. As always, please remember that the Addis Ababa flight calls at either Geneva or Marseilles - depending upon the day of the week - and therefore Manchester possibly has only about 50pc of the available seats allocated to it.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Following on from the airport's official statistics in post #1,344 here is my take using the CAA data;

 

[Scottie Dog]

With July having now gone, here is my take on the numeric movements that my records give:

July 2025 - 19,793
July 2026 - 20,711

Difference - 4.64pc

Hopefully the official airport statistics will be out within the next few days.

 

[Scottie Dog]

I'm pleased to say that the airport's official statistics are now available and are reproduced below:

 

[Scottie Dog]

I'm currently away with family, however I will produce my usual monthly report as soon as possible - although it may be the weekend before I have been able to do all the work necessary.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Further to the airport's official June statistics in post #1349 here is my analysis of the top routes and the load factors on my selected routes.