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Herewith an overview of the AMS <-> UK passenger market in 2009.
The year 2009 has been a disastrous year for Schiphol's most important market the United Kingdom. Historically the UK is the largest passenger market for AMS and the economic crisis has hit demand for air travel very hard.
Stations ranked by growth/decline in passenger market:
- LPL +13% due to arrival KLM on route
- LCY +6,5% due to CityJet/VLM/KLM/BA
- MAN +1,5% due arrival BMIbaby on route
- STN -2,4%
- EDI -2,9%
- BRS -5,6%
- LGW -8,8%
- MME -11,3%
- SOU -11,3%
- LHR -11,7% it is not suprising BMI is pulling out
- LBS -11,7%
- ABZ -12,2%
- GLA -12,8%
- NCL -12,9%
- NWI -13,6%
- HUY -14,2%
- EXE -15,8%
- BHX -16,4%
- LTN -16,4%
- EMA -16,9%
- CWL - 30,1% result of BMIbaby pull out
- BFS -34,4% result of Aer Lingus pull out
Firstly I thought the UK market must have grown last year as Cityjet and Flybe (?) increased their frequences and routes from Schiphol. But... I forgot both airlines only operate small aircrafts
I would say that, apart from the pound sterling rate, another very important factor is called 'Ryanair'.....I wonder how the UK-Weeze and UK-Eindhoven numbers look like.
Ryanair will certainly be a important factor, but how long are the allready flying from that airports?
It's not that the recently started new routes.
True, but the drop in passengernumbers of Schiphol is not new either, already in 2008 they went down a lot. But as you say, Ryanair is an important factor but not the only one. If I look at my personal situation, I travel abroad for my work every now and then but for me, living in Arnhem and working in Aalten (Achterhoek), Düsseldorf-International is my first choice airport, mainly because of the traffic congestion around Schiphol. Of course, that reason is not specific for UK-flights but still it counts.
Bas
Last edited by Basman on 27 Mar 2010, 20:38, edited 1 time in total.
Very interesting topic! Is it possible to get a comparison between VLM/Cityjet/Air France/KLM or (whatever they are called now) and BA
on the AMS-LCY-AMS route?
It sure is interesting. I would also be interested in the numbers of FlyBe and Jet2. Had a Jet2 flight to Leeds recently which wasn't even half full. FlyBe flights are widely used by our clients and my colleagues, especially from/to Düsseldorf.
After many months of negative passenger growth on AMS's main market - the United Kingdom, February 2010 has finally seen growth return over the same month of the previous year = February 2009: