CAA Passenger Statistics

[A400]

Excepting Amsterdam load factors look really poor.

I wouldn’t say it’s that bad. And it’s a route that’s been operating for years so must be good enough to continue. If the loads were of concern to them they chop it surely.

 

[pug]

Excepting Amsterdam load factors look really poor.

Eastern have always operated at low load factors. Their fleet are relatively economical and their routes rely on people paying a (relative) lot of money to use them. So wouldn’t be too concerned about those load factors.

AMS seems to be pretty standard, though the route is still way under pre-covid capacity - and flights are still being cancelled! Will be good to see the May figures, PMI is sold out most weeks.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

I wouldn’t say it’s that bad. And it’s a route that’s been operating for years so must be good enough to continue. If the loads were of concern to them they chop it surely.

Under 40% load factor is poor. All I can think is they are charging inflated fares to make the books balance.

Eastern have always operated at low load factors. Their fleet are relatively economical and their routes rely on people paying a (relative) lot of money to use them. So wouldn’t be too concerned about those load factors.

AMS seems to be pretty standard, though the route is still way under pre-covid capacity - and flights are still being cancelled! Will be good to see the May figures, PMI is sold out most weeks.

I think our posts 'crossed'. Bear in mind we are now coming up to the quietest time of year for business travel so unless Eastern start cancelling flights the load factors are likely to dip further.

 

[pug]

Under 40% load factor is poor. All I can think is they are charging inflated fares to make the books balance.


I think our posts 'crossed'. Bear in mind we are now coming up to the quietest time of year for business travel so unless Eastern start cancelling flights the load factors are likely to dip further.

They are low by the standards of other airlines but I don’t recall the load factors on ABZ ever setting the world on fire. Just the way they operate. Tend to believe there are companies paying enough to keep them ticking over. Best to see what happens. Newquay started a few weeks ago 4 x weekly so be interesting to see how that is doing as that’s geared towards the holiday market with more affordable fares.

 

[Cruzeiro do Sul]

It might be worth another look at the load factor calculation on the ABZ route. The seats offered figure looks as if it may be overstated by the EBJ figure above it.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Many thanks for pointing the error of my ways!

You're correct and I apologise.

To save my having to repost all the figures the corrected Aberdeen load factors are as follows:

December - 46.08%
January - 54.80%
February - 60.34%
March - 56.90%

Hopefully I've now updated my formula and data will be correct.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Here is my take on the CAA data for April 2023.

The CAA has now published Table 3 and therefore this report is now complete.

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Load Factors on selected routes
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[Stagman]

CAA April Aircraft Movements have been released yesterday.

Aircraft Movements:
2023: 1,352
2022: 1,023
2019: 1,527

Terminal Passengers:
2023: 9,128
2022: 5,021
2019: 15,851

 

[pug]

CAA April Aircraft Movements have been released yesterday.

Aircraft Movements:
2023: 1,352
2022: 1,023
2019: 1,527

Terminal Passengers:
2023: 9,128
2022: 5,021
2019: 15,851

Good to see things heading in the right direction, but a way to go to be back in the pre-covid position. Hopefully the increase in KLM flights recently will help bring those passenger numbers up more.

Bit concerned about how EBJ is doing, still pretty thin but it’s lasted over 6 months which is more than other scheduled routes in recent years. NQY may add further to the figures, not to mention PMI and BOJ.

Onwards and (hopefully) upwards.

 

[Scottie Dog]

I'm currently on holiday but will hopefully post statistics, from the CAA, when I return next week.

 

[pug]

I'm currently on holiday but will hopefully post statistics, from the CAA, when I return next week.

Seen elsewhere but won’t copy their work.

Strong figures in the whole except for NQY and EBJ. PMI and BOJ 97% and 100% load factors respectively!!

 

[Stagman]

May CAA Stats

Aircraft Movements
1,749

Terminal Passemgers
12,349

 

[Scottie Dog]

Finally catching up with a backlog, so here is my take on the May statistics based on the CAA's data.

For those interested you will find a comparison of 2019 v 2023 here:

Airport News - General airport statistics and CAA data release dates

CAA yearly data comparison for March 2019-2023

forums4airports.com

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Load-factors based on FR24 movements and seating plans from Planespotters.net.
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[LBAYORKIE]

Eastern have always operated at low load factors. Their fleet are relatively economical and their routes rely on people paying a (relative) lot of money to use them. So wouldn’t be too concerned about those load factors.

AMS seems to be pretty standard, though the route is still way under pre-covid capacity - and flights are still being cancelled! Will be good to see the May figures, PMI is sold out most weeks.

Maybe I was right to be concerned. Is it correct Esbjerg has been canned?

 

[pug]

Movements EU scheduled 161 EU charter 16 Other international 235 Domestic scheduled 98 Domestic charter 8 Total 518

Passengers-Terminal 14,395 (10,865 +32%)
Transit 0 (185)

Aberdeen 1,124 (948)
Newcastle 0 (83)
Total 1,124 (1,031 +9%)

Jersey 486 (435 +12%)

Newquay 402 (388 +4%)

Leeds/Bradford 79 (0)

Esbjerg 289 (0)

Perpignan 0 (74)

Amsterdam 7,685 (5,167 +49%)

Palma 1,469 (1,431 +3%)

Burgas 1,337 (1,274)
Doncaster 0 (267)
Total 1,337 (1,541 -13%)

Oil Rigs 1,524 (791 +91%)

I have taken this from a user elsewhere so apologies if that person is reading.

Overall some pretty reasonable loads on the main routes, the AMS has surpassed MME load factors for May and June. PMI wiry TUI 97.2% LF and same for BOJ.

Now that KLM appear to be back to full schedules (long may it continue) hopefully we will see further growth in figures for July and August!

 

[Scottie Dog]

As some of you may be aware I have been going through a difficult time of recent and, as a result, my compilation of statistics has taken a bit of a back seat.

As soon as I am able to I will return with monthly data and in the meantime I would ask that you bear with me.

SD

 

[Scottie Dog]

Updated June data file as I had omitted to crop the image:

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[Scottie Dog]

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[Scottie Dog]

A comparison of September data for September 2019-2023 is now available at https://forums4airports.com/threads/5728/

This will be updated each month when the CAA releases its figures.

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[Scottie Dog]

October data now available, belatedly from me, on the CAA website.

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