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Brussels Airlines July '16 figures: +5.2% pax

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Brussels Airlines published its July figures today: +5.2% more passengers compared to 2015.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/brussel ... ines-july/

By coincidence, Brussels Airport published its own figures a few hours earlier: it was the second busiest month in history, but still -3.2% compared to 2015.

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussel ... gers-july/

This means that, again, SN is consolidating its grip on the BRU market.
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Actually no it doesnt. It means that the (mostly LH) competitors have pulled out of BRU because of the terror attacks whilst SN is commited to growth because of their aircraft change programme. And whilst the new destinations sell well, the loadfactor stays stable. So the only growth realised is the switch over from AVRO to Airbus. Essential to their low yield growth program is to bring the load factors up now.

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sn26567 wrote:Brussels Airlines published its July figures today: +5.2% more passengers compared to 2015.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/brussel ... ines-july/

By coincidence, Brussels Airport published its own figures a few hours earlier: it was the second busiest month in history, but still -3.2% compared to 2015.

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussel ... gers-july/

This means that, again, SN is consolidating its grip on the BRU market.
And it means too SN recovered more or less completely : January > July included 2015 : 4.222.567 PAX
January > July included 2016 : 4.206.846 (-15.721)
Impressive job !

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sean1982 wrote:Actually no it doesnt. It means that the (mostly LH) competitors have pulled out of BRU because of the terror attacks whilst SN is commited to growth because of their aircraft change programme. And whilst the new destinations sell well, the loadfactor stays stable. So the only growth realised is the switch over from AVRO to Airbus. Essential to their low yield growth program is to bring the load factors up now.
Since the attacks coincided with the last days of operations of 9W at BRU, I wonder how much of the declining BRU pax numbers are because of 9W pulling out, and how much of the actual terror attacks. How many pax did 9W have at BRU on a monthly basis?

How much are the other operators at BRU recovering from what happened in March? Only DL really 'pulled out' and only with one flight. Other operators only timmed down operations or slowed down growth plans at the airport, but didn't really pull out.

All in all it is fair to say SN is enlarging it's presence at BRU and is turning into a real and true home carrier a la AF at CDG, KL at AMS, LH at FRA or BA at LHR. In a much smaller form of course.

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Conti764 wrote:All in all it is fair to say SN is enlarging it's presence at BRU and is turning into a real and true home carrier a la AF at CDG, KL at AMS, LH at FRA or BA at LHR. In a much smaller form of course.
SN market share in BRU is now 33% (1 out of 3 flights). Not so long ago it was more like 25% (1 out of 4).
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sn26567 wrote:Brussels Airlines published its July figures today: +5.2% more passengers compared to 2015.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/brussel ... ines-july/

By coincidence, Brussels Airport published its own figures a few hours earlier: it was the second busiest month in history, but still -3.2% compared to 2015.

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussel ... gers-july/

This means that, again, SN is consolidating its grip on the BRU market.
De Tijd seems to agree with you:

Brussels Airlines growing faster than the airport of Zaventem.

http://www.tijd.be/ondernemen/luchtvaar ... 1471041391

And Charleroi too, in fact, I could add: just 2% volumetric growth there, (and this despite more flights vs last year)

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2 comments:

As they remind every month in their press release, these figures do not include their (substantial amount, mostly on Saturdays, of) charter flights and wet-lease flights for various operators. Very logicaly, the related load factors are not included in their table either, but I assume it should be above their average, and in any case I guess they are making some money on those, unless they only do it to keep their crews and planes busy. ;)

As usual, it's useful to check their maths: for their freight load factor, they indicate it goes from 58 in July 2015 to 63.7 in July 2016 and they conclude the load factor went down 5.7 points! ;) Or, are they just inverting the figures?

And, btw, same mistake for the June figures on the freight load factor.

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convair wrote:2 comments:

As they remind every month in their press release, these figures do not include their (substantial amount, mostly on Saturdays, of) charter flights and wet-lease flights for various operators. Very logicaly, the related load factors are not included in their table either, but I assume it should be above their average, and in any case I guess they are making some money on those, unless they only do it to keep their crews and planes busy. ;)
This a difficult one, charter flights are no money makers for sure, just have a look at all the bankrupt charter operators. When Sobelair went bankrupt, there was no replacement available. The tour operators had to create their own airlines...
When you have an aircraft sitting on the tarmac, the fixed costs are a loss. If you use it for a charter flight it will generate revenue and as soon as that revenue is higher than the variable cost it will improve your overall result, whilst the flight itself could be loss-making.

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"Brussels Airlines the fastest growing entity within the LH group, despite being directly impacted by the March terrorist events."

http://www.aero.de/news-24771/Brussels- ... hansa.html

Aero notes SN have added close to 10% capacity in a very cunning move amid a very though market (most of the LH group too BTW) and have scored high marks for filling all of it.

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This is again a strong performance... I hope that LH will take it into consideration if they decide to do a full takeover on SN!

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