London area airports - Ireland traffic figures for November
The UK CAA has published
traffic figures for November 2009.The trend established in September does appear to have carried through to November whereby the key LHR routes have shown signs of recovery, albeit at the expense fo LGW routes.
Dublin-London
Dublin's Gatwick traffic
which is split between Ryanair and Aer Lingus showed its first negative trend in many a month with passenger numbers falling 13% YoY to 74,872. Heathrow and Stansted both reversed the negative trend established in the past two years with LHR static at 138,284 which was 5,000 up on October's figure passengers and Stansted (a Ryanair
preserve) down just 2% this month to 62,354, a stark contrast to the past 18 months where the YoY declines were well into the double digit. Luton was down 18% YoY at 24,772, a drop of 5,000 over October.
Cork - London
At Cork, Gatwick traffic
was down 2% to 9,492. Heathrow was up 6% YoY to 38,310 while Stansted, a
Ryanair route was down 21% to 16,777.
Shannon-London
Shannon is certainly feeling the pinch of the Ryanair vacuum with Gatwick showing -4% YoY change for the month at 15,401, and Stansted down a whopping 38% YoY, to 15,686. On the Heathrow - Shannon route operated by Aer Lingus the
total for the month was 19,138 up 5,000 on October's total.
Belfast-London
On the Belfast City -
Heathrow route, BMI recorded a 3% YoY drop on the route with 41,942 passengers. Over at Aldergrove, Aer
Lingus has halted its slide of many months on the - Heathrow route continue with a 7%
YoY growth with 24,144 passengers, up 1,000 on October.
BMI 0-1 Aer Lingus this month.
On the Belfast City
- London Gatwick route, operated by FlyBe, passenger figures are up 19%
YoY at 19,201. EasyJet's Belfast
International - Gatwick route suffered again this month with a 9% YoY
fall in numbers to 24,144.
FlyBe 1-0 easyJet.
London City - New York
Today's "Speedbird 1" routing LCY-SNN-JFK operated by A318 G-EUNB demonstrates its short take off ability with a departure from the intersection of Alpha and R24 at Shannon this afternoon.
November was the first full month's operation of British Airways new London City - JFK service which stops off in Shannon. For the month of November a total of 1,890 passengers used the service. With 32 seats available on each of 47 services in each direction for the month the load factor works out at just under 63%. The revenue generated by the service will have been upwards of £5.7m for the month. BA stated this week that the service had already reached profit point after just 10 weeks in operation.