CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Aviador]

Prestwick Airport passengers down 19%

Prestwick Airport is suffering in the economic climate following a sharp decline in passengers. According to the latest statistics released by the airport's owners Infratil, it handled 160,419 passengers in April.

In comparison with the same time last year passenger figures were down by 19 percent. This is slightly better than in March, when passengers were down 22 percent on the previous year. The loss of charter flights is the main reason for the falls.

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[Aviador]

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Have any of you locals happened to notice how routes seem to be performing now the summer season is fully underway? I hope the previous threat of Job losses has eased now that the recession seems to have bottomed out.

 

[SJM]

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I'm not sure how routes from PIK are currently performing, but Ryanair appear to have decimated their services from Prestwick, with effect from the winter timetable. They have actually scrapped the long-established routes from PIK to Bournemouth and Krakow, from mid-July and at only a month's notice! From the end of October, previously year-round routes from Prestwick to Frankfurt Hahn, Milan Bergamo, Rome Ciampino, Wroclaw, Budapest, Stockholm Skavsta and Pisa have all been cut. How Prestwick will survive this is anyone's guess.
Surprise, surprise - Ryanair are retaining routes to most of the above destinations from Edinburgh throughout the winter, at Prestwick's expense.

 

[Aviador]

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I'm not sure how routes from PIK are currently performing, but Ryanair appear to have decimated their services from Prestwick, with effect from the winter timetable. They have actually scrapped the long-established routes from PIK to Bournemouth and Krakow, from mid-July and at only a month's notice! From the end of October, previously year-round routes from Prestwick to Frankfurt Hahn, Milan Bergamo, Rome Ciampino, Wroclaw, Budapest, Stockholm Skavsta and Pisa have all been cut. How Prestwick will survive this is anyone's guess.
Surprise, surprise - Ryanair are retaining routes to most of the above destinations from Edinburgh throughout the winter, at Prestwick's expense.

Ryanair don't have a base at Glasgow International either do they? How long does it take to get from Prestwick to Edinburgh airport? I would have thought that the two airports would have completely different catchment areas. It's a shame that Ryanair are playing their usual 'cat and mouse' tricks playing one airport off against the other. It's that old warn out saying 'too many eggs in one basket', more so at any airport where Ryanair flies from!

I wonder if Jet2 have ever considered using Glasgow Prestwick? I know that they haven't expressed any interest in Glasgow International but the Prestwick airport is probably far enough away from Edinburgh to avoid crossing each airports catchment area.

 

[SJM]

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Ryanair do not have a base at Glasgow International. They have bases at both Prestwick and Edinburgh -separated by a distance of approximately 70 miles. Prestwick's big problem is that they are almost totally reliant on Ryanair, with the exception of a few Wizzair and Aer Arann flights each week. Prestwick has also been hit particularly hard over the last year by the downturn in freight services and the loss of the majority of their charter services with the collapse of Seguro Holidays. To answer your question, Jet2 have not indicated any likelihood of operating from Prestwick.

 

[Aviador]

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I wouldn't have thought that a PIK base is out of the question for Jet2. I would have thought that the catchment of PIK is substantially larger than BLK Blackpool which has one Jet2 aircraft based there. Not been all that familiar with the area, where would you say the PIK catchment extends to realistically, say within the 1 hour drive time. This is based on the idea that most people will accept a one hour drive time to an airport.

 

[SJM]

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I would say that the PIK catchment area extends to Glasgow and slightly beyond, which constitutes about an hour's driving time. The problem is that Edinburgh's catchment area could also extend westwards towards Glasgow, which is also within an hour's driving time from there. In other words, the city of Glasgow is almost exactly in the middle between PIK and EDI airports.

 

[Aviador]

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CAA Stats for July

Passenger numbers for July were -25.7% down compared with the same month last year. Passenger numbers for the month of July were 193,009

The rolling year passenger numbers stand at 2,105,410 -14.1% down.

Another bad month for Prestwick. Not all the figures are uploaded to the CAA site yet but so far the national average is -7% down, so PIK is performing worse than the national average at the moment.

Neighbouring airport Glasgow International was -12.8% down last month which is -11.4% down year on year.

 

[SJM]

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I believe that much of this percentage fall in Prestwick's July passenger figures is due to the much-reduced charter flights on offer this year from the airport, due to the collapse of Seguro Holidays in September last year, who provided most of the charter holidays from PIK. I would imagine that the scheduled figures (Ryanair and Wizzair) would not be down by as large a percentage, when compared with July 08.

 

[Aviador]

I can't remember whether I asked before, how many flights did Seguro operate each week from PIK last year?

 

[SJM]

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To be honest, I can't really remember, but I would guess approximately 3 to 4 flights a week, each way. However, Prestwick's charter flight figures have also been hit from last year, as other tour operators (not Seguro) used LTE for a couple of flights a week each way and that airline also went out of business! (PIK has not had much luck with holiday companies and airlines going bust).

 

[red dug]

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Operated by Swift air MD80s though the last inbound of the season last week was a Jet2 B737

 

[Aviador]

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Another bad month for PIK

Passengers for October 153,170 down -28.4%

Rolling year passengers stand at 1,907,403 a whopping -21.7% reduction on the same period last year.

 

[Aviador]

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Will the loss of Fly Globespan have a positive effect on passenger totals and services from PIK?

 

[Aviador]

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[textarea]Prestwick Airport passengers down 27%

112,612 passengers passed through Prestwick Airport in November, 27% less than a year earlier, which is in line with recent trends. However, the airports winter sun destinations continued to perform well, with strong load factors. Freight volumes were down by 33% compared to prior months at 873 tonnes.

In November Ryanair announced a new route to the South of France city of Carcassonne, commencing March 2010 as well as increased frequencies on six existing routes. Ryanair also announced the withdrawal of the Shannon route due to commercial issues at Shannon Airport.

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[Aviador]

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[textarea]Prestwick Airport passengers down 31%

Just 107,033 passengers passed thought Prestwick Airport in December, down 31% than a year earlier but in line with recent trends. The airport's winter sun destinations continue to perform well, with strong load factors, with the loss of passengers coming primarily from domestic UK and Irish routes axed by Ryanair in the last 12 months.

The airport also benefited from the bad winter weather conditions in December, handling diversions from Heathrow, Gatwick, Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Flights from airlines including Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, BMI, Logan air, and easyJet were handled.

Freight volumes for December were 877 tonnes, a 25% reduction on last year.

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[TheLocalYokel]

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Does that mean that without the passengers on the flights diverted in the December figures would have been even worse?

 

[Aviador]

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Good question! I don't know if diversion figures are included in the CAA stats. The flights will at least have provided the airport with valued income from landing & handling fees.

 

[Aviador]

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A total of 151,072 passengers passed through Glasgow Prestwick Airport during May -7.6% down on May last year. Rolling year passengers stand at 1,669,054, down -25.2%

Stats provided by the CAA.

 

[red dug]

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Its been on a downward spiral for a while now sadly