SOUTHEND - 3 The new beginning
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Yes, a nervous few days ahead for Southend - CAA stats early next week, and Southend United in the play-offs! I think I'll take a win on aggregate for both the stats and the play-offs.....
From reports I've had the SEN-DUB seems to have got off to a good start with all three daily flights achieving reasonable load factors. This week it's being operated by an ATR42 but next weekend will see an ATR72 back on the route for a few days.
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Which aircraft have they been using? EI-CBK would be the best 42 to launch something I guess given its in full livery. Great that the routes gone live with 3 x daily frequency and looking at the schedules and gap in flight numbers it could easily be increased to 4 x daily, or maybe another route launched? NOC? SNN?
Yes, it was EI-CBK for the past couple of days.
There isn't sufficient slack in the schedule to operate an additional rotation to either of the destinations that you mention. I'm sure they'll leave it at 3 x daily SEN-DUB for the summer, with an ATR72 substituted when loads warrant it.
I believe there has been quite a bit of interest in through bookings to the US city destinations on offer via this route, with the SEN management stressing that no such service is available from either LTN or STN.
There isn't sufficient slack in the schedule to operate an additional rotation to either of the destinations that you mention. I'm sure they'll leave it at 3 x daily SEN-DUB for the summer, with an ATR72 substituted when loads warrant it.
I believe there has been quite a bit of interest in through bookings to the US city destinations on offer via this route, with the SEN management stressing that no such service is available from either LTN or STN.
Good passenger loads does not always mean a successful route but it helps. It’s what the passenger’s pay for their tickets that counts. 100 passengers paying an average of £40 before tax will earn the airline less than just 50 passengers paying an average of £85.
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Good passenger loads does not always mean a successful route but it helps.
It’s what the passenger’s pay for their tickets that counts. 100 passengers
paying an average of £40 before tax will earn the airline less than just 50
passengers paying an average of £85.
Best of Luck to EIR on the new route... Will also be good to see Aer Arann getting a place on the busy Dublin / London market.
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CAA Stats
First month of stats since SEN Easyjet service as follows:
Amsterdam 9779
Belfast Intl 8945
Faro 5947
Alicante 5777
Istanbul 333 (charter)
Cologne 124 (charter)
Waterford 2839
Total -------> 33,744
Annualised 404, 928...... not a bad start! Vis a Vis stated goal of 2M...
Not all routes (Scheduled) were flying from day 1
It would appear that STN figures on some of the routes were hit, e.g Faro, Amsterdam, Alicante, though Belfast STN did well overall, with Bmibaby seeing over 10k on the route and Easyjet taking a drop of 5K for the month over LY. Early days to draw conclusions..
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Amsterdam 9779
Belfast Intl 8945
Faro 5947
Alicante 5777
Istanbul 333 (charter)
Cologne 124 (charter)
Waterford 2839
Total -------> 33,744
Annualised 404, 928...... not a bad start! Vis a Vis stated goal of 2M...
Not all routes (Scheduled) were flying from day 1
It would appear that STN figures on some of the routes were hit, e.g Faro, Amsterdam, Alicante, though Belfast STN did well overall, with Bmibaby seeing over 10k on the route and Easyjet taking a drop of 5K for the month over LY. Early days to draw conclusions..
EI-BUD
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The full passenger total for April was 41,626.
Those routes not mentioned by EI-BUD:
Barcelona 7,446
Ibiza 100 (one flight)
Carmoli 145
Unknown 191
A rough calculation of load factor suggests:
AMS 65%
ALC 83%
BCN 82%
BFS 58%
FAO 71%
WAT 65%
The above may not be wholely accurate as flight frequencies changed over the month as a whole, but they probably give a rough approximation to reality.
Those routes not mentioned by EI-BUD:
Barcelona 7,446
Ibiza 100 (one flight)
Carmoli 145
Unknown 191
A rough calculation of load factor suggests:
AMS 65%
ALC 83%
BCN 82%
BFS 58%
FAO 71%
WAT 65%
The above may not be wholely accurate as flight frequencies changed over the month as a whole, but they probably give a rough approximation to reality.
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Please spare us! I know its early days and long before CAA stats will come out but does anyone in the know have an idea what kind of loads are going on the DUB route? Its one I notice is available to book into winter.
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Any airline can fill seats. Yield is what matters..!!
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In the absence of load figures to critcise folk start shouting about yield and how easyjet have offered low fares - how many routes do easyjet launch without low fares, I thought that was the business model! When the flights launched atc problems caused delays and people we're slating it as a bad launch. Its all green eyed monster talk in the end.
Maybe the reason for the lack of commentary is that with 397 SEN posts in the five weeks since the thread was started there is nothing new left to say.
FWIW EasyJet have expressed themselves publicly as "very pleased" with the start of operations at SEN. But then they would say that wouldn't they ?
FWIW EasyJet have expressed themselves publicly as "very pleased" with the start of operations at SEN. But then they would say that wouldn't they ?
Everyone who bangs on about yield is totally ignoring the fact that we do not have 'yields' figures, and CAA stats/load factors are the only way to gauge the success of a route or of an airport; it's either that or nothing.
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.......EasyJet had avg LFs of around 90% whilst at EMA but still packed up and left complaining of low yield...
Chat about loads by all means but they are in no way an indicator of success.
Chat about loads by all means but they are in no way an indicator of success.