STATS: APR 2014 PAX UP 7% ON 2013
Posted: May 27, 2014 Filed under: Airline & Route News, Cardiff Airport & RAF St Athan, Uncategorized | Tags: 2014, April, CAA, Cardiff Airport, EGFF, South Wales, statistics, Wales Leave a commentApril 2014.
Stats are now up on WAF – click here to view.
“April saw passengers up 7.2% and flights up 7.1% on April 2013 – this was helped by the much later Easter in 2014 against 2013. Rolling year is now at an increase of 9.8% in passengers and 6.3% in flights. I will be watching this closely in the coming months because the percentage increase in flights is slowly catching up with percentage increase in passengers. We don’t want to be in a situation where the percentage increase in flights is much greater than the increase in passengers – this would indicate passengers aren’t growing inline with increase in flights. We want the current flights to get busier before further services are added.
Destinations that are up are ALC up 57%, AMS up 7% (another month 10K + pax – around 4 extra people per flight compared to last year), BCN up 17%, BHD up 21%, DUB up 12%, AGP up 57%, PFO up 14% and TFS up 41% (additional rotation a week). Routes in the red are VLY down 7%, ACE down 2%, EDI down 33%, GLA down 21%, LPA down 3%, NCL/ABZ down 2% and SSH down 23%.
April was the first full month of all 4 WX routes EDI, GLA, JER and ORY – each route achieved 29 PAX (57%), 25 PAX (51%), 20 PAX (40%) and 31 PAX (62%) respectively. These aren’t bad results (particularly for EDI considering it was the first month of EDI ops), however, this will need to improve over coming months – but it is still early days. VY returned with BCN achieving 70% loads which is better than previous years with improved Friday and Sunday flight times. ALC and AGP achieved loads of 82% and 74% respectively – slightly disappointing for Easter time – but all three routes saw growth. April was the last of the Ski flights for BE with Geneva and Chambery having loads of 71% and 52% – unfortunately it does look like none of the ski routes are returning for next winter. These were always going to be difficult to sell with such a short lead in time (2 months). There was also 3 charter destinations – FUE, GOA (P&O cruises) and MCO (TCX charter) which saw loads of 65%, 100% and 94% – slight disappointment at FUE with a B757-200 being used and achieving just 152 passengers.
Overall, a good month for CWL – roll on summer.”
STATS: PASSENGERS UP 3% IN MARCH
Posted: April 27, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentMarch 14.
Stats are now on the WAF site. Click here to view.
March saw passengers up 3.3% with flights up 4.7%. Rolling year now stands at 1,079,559 passengers up 8.5% and flights up 5.2%. These figures are helped by the much later Easter this year but this month did see several cancelations due to the weather.
Many routes saw growth – ABZ up 15%, AMS up 5%, ALC up 100%, DUB up 4%, EDI up 4%, AGP up 105% and SSH up 15%. AMS had the most seats on offer (helped by the E190) of 14,720 followed by EDI and AGP at 10,987 and 6,641 respectively. Routes such as BHD, GLA and NCL saw decreases with -45% and -29% respectively. GLA will be due to WX taking over the route. March is the first full month of WX operations with GLA and ORY seeing average loads of 25 and 29 respectively, which is fairly encoraging. I expect to see EDI route loose passengers for the next few months (along with JER), although March did see an average load on EDI of around 56 passengers making the F50 a good choice for the route (until the route starts to grow again).
March was also the end of the majority of BE ski routes. These had loads varying around the 50% mark in March and will be interesting to see what actually returns, if any, next year. Vueling had a much better month with loads of AGP and ALC both over 75%. This should continue into the summer and lets hope it is an encouraging sign for BCN which commences back in April.
STATS: Passengers Up 30% – February Stats now on Wales Air Forum
Posted: March 23, 2014 Filed under: Wales Air Forum Press Releases Leave a commentStats for Feb 14 are now on WAF. Click here to view.
“Another month of growth at CWL, PAX up 30% to 59,611. Rolling year up 7%.
These figures were helped by the two airlifts that occurred in February this year. One to Dublin and one to France. The French airlift carried over 7700 passengers on charter flights, whilst the Dublin lift carried over 2300 passengers on charter flights. However, even without these charter flights, we saw more standard passengers using Cardiff compared to last February.
Many destinations showed growth with ALC up 213%, AMS up 8%, EDI up 22.3%, AGP up 114% and TFS up 28%. A slightly better month for VY on APG and ALC with LFs of 66% and 62% respectively, however, this is still below the level it needs to be to be sustainable for VY. It is interesting to note the TOM had nearly half the number of flights to AGP but carried nearly as many people.
Routes that saw drops included SSH at -6% (due to less popularity of holiday to Egypt), BHD down 12% (less rotations, but still at a LF of 70%), GLA -32% (due to WX taking over), ACE -5% and VLY -9%. Cityjet took over the GLA route and started ORY at the end of Jan, so Feb is the first month to see how the routes are progressing. GLA had a load of 45%, and ORY had a load of 37%, which relates to passengers of 23 and 19 respectively. This isn’t a horrendous start but this will need to improve over the next few months for Cityjet to see CWL as sustainable. Two further routes to EDI and JER commence in April.
Lets hope we continue to see growth until May, which will be a continuous 12 months of growth at CWL. “
STATS: Cardiff Airport stats for August available on Wales Air Forum
Posted: September 26, 2013 Filed under: Cardiff Airport & RAF St Athan | Tags: Airport, CAA, Cardiff, Cardiff Airport, CWL, EGFF, May 2013, statistics, Stats Leave a commentClick here to view stats for August 2013.
“August was a very busy month for the airport. Passenger numbers up 14.4%, with flights up 7.1%. The rolling year passenger numbers is now just short of breaking even, so fingers crossed for a busy September.
The majority of flights saw increases and high load factors. Many of the core routes show growth i.e. AMS, DUB, GLA, CDG. The Dusseldorf route had its busiest month so far with a load factor of 68% on a 78 seat aircraft (about 53 PAX per flight). Many holiday routes showed growth, many helped by Vueling. AGP saw huge growth with a 530% increase and a load factor of 87% across Thomson and Vueling. The individual LFs for Vueling were very strong and hopefully will remain high for the rest of the summer season.
Some routes saw decreases, again AYT and BJV are due to capacity cuts by TCX compared to last summer. The Funchal charter only had loads of 62%, 100 people, which is disappointing and may hinder further growth by Atlantic Holidays for 2014.”
STATS: JULY 2013 STATS FOR CARDIFF AIRPORT NOW ON WAF
Posted: August 18, 2013 Filed under: Cardiff Airport & RAF St Athan, Wales Air Forum Press Releases | Tags: 2013, CAA, Cardiff Airport, CWL, EGFF, July, Monthly Stats, statistics, Stats, WAF, Wales Air Forum Leave a comment| The stats for July 2013 are now on the Wales Air Forum site. Click here to download.
Contains information on load factors, passengers per flight, busiest airline in terms of passengers and movements and also where the busiest destinations were. |
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