Brussels Airport: monthly figures 2010

[Atlantis]

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[liege-bierset]

Thanks Atlantis.

[Atlantis]

JULY

PAX

Brussels Airport welcomed in July 1.860.000 pax or an increase with +2,1% when we compare this with the same month last year.


Intra-EU: 1.111.000 pax: -1%

Extra-EU: 749.000 pax: +7%


Intra-EU is still suffering and this due to several facts: after the economic crisis, the Belgian traveller is travelling with his own car. The drop in holiday flights is significant.
Intra-EU is not only a case of BRU but also CRL. CRL is taking away lots of clients of BRU and this due to several new flights of Ryanair and Jetairfly.

Extra-EU was driven to the new flights of United (Chicago), Air Canada (Montréal/Toronto), Icelandair, Hainan and MEA. Brussels Airlines also started 4 new long haul destinations.
Transit pax increased significant. Both Transit and Extra-EU -> +20%


CARGO


Brucargo handled in July 41.118 ton cargo or an incrase with +14% when we compare this with the same month last year.

Full freighter: +16%
Cargo on pax flights: +36%

Although there is an increase in total cargo there were several cancellations during this month.


MOVEMENTS

During July there were 20.772 movements on the airport or a decrease with -0,5% when we compare this with the same month last year.

[brusselsairlinesfan]

Is the drop in EU figures due to the move of some Jetairfly ops to CRL or to the fact that Ryanair is stealing pax from brussels airlines or others BRU operators?

[Atlantis]

Is the drop in EU figures due to the move of some Jetairfly ops to CRL or to the fact that Ryanair is stealing pax from brussels airlines or others BRU operators?

Jetairfly stopped flying Toulon ex-BRU and moved it to CRL. That's the only one. Jetairfly started Istanbul ex-CRL which they are not flying from BRU, etc etc.

LGG and OST are not real pax airports as the presence of Thomas Cook Airlines and Jetairfly is marginal.
But CRL is growing at a very high speed. So were are those pax come from? The neighbour countries and Brussels Airport.

Don't forget that July is still showing the dismiss of SkyEurope, Ukraine International stopped flying Kiev and most of the European Airlines flies less then before the economic crisis.

[Acid-drop]

LGG and OST are not real pax airports as the presence of Thomas Cook Airlines and Jetairfly is marginal.
But CRL is growing at a very high speed.

CRL is growing fast, but their jetair destination list is not much bigger than OST and LGG.
Wonder now why they grow in CRL and not in the 2 other ... is the central position of CRL explaining everything ? Is jetair only explaining the decrease of BRU ?

It's maybe the begining of a scary trend for BRU


From wikipedia, for info.
*Jetair from LGG : Alicante, Antalya, Bodrum, Djerba, Enfidha [seasonal], Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, İzmir, Kos, Málaga, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodos, Tenerife-South.
*Jetair from CRL : Algiers, Djerba, Enfidha [seasonal], Heraklion, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Monastir, Murcia, Rhodes, Tangier, Tenerife-South, Toulon [begins November]
*Jetair from OST : Alicante, Enfidha [seasonal], Heraklion, Kos, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife
* Jetair from BRU : Agadir, Aqaba, Boa Vista, Cairo, Cancún, Dubrovnik, Djerba, Enfidha, Hurghada, Liberia, Luxor, Marrakech, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Nador, Oujda, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Sal, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tabarka, Tangier, Tunis, Varadero, Varna, Zanzibar, Ajaccio, Alicante, Almería, Araxos, Athens, Bastia, Burgas, Brindisi, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lesbos, Lourdes, Málaga, Minorca, Mykonos, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Toulon, Zakynthos, Zaragoza

[Atlantis]

As I have said, Jetairfly is not the only one who caused the decrease of Intra-EU. Skyeurope, Ukraine International, several strikes, ash cloud etc caused that Intra-EU was allways minus at BRU in 2010.

Important is also that you have in a small country as Belgium two important airports with Intra-EU traffic.

Mind you that TO sold less seats for the summerseason.


But no panic.

[LJ]

Don't forget that July is still showing the dismiss of SkyEurope, Ukraine International stopped flying Kiev and most of the European Airlines flies less then before the economic crisis.

I don't see the economic crisis hitting European traffic at AMS for example. Airlines come and go, but the numbers for BRU haven't been great this year so far (when comparing to its neighbours). Would be great if BRU would outperform its neighbours for a change..

[Atlantis]

Don't forget that July is still showing the dismiss of SkyEurope, Ukraine International stopped flying Kiev and most of the European Airlines flies less then before the economic crisis.

I don't see the economic crisis hitting European traffic at AMS for example. Airlines come and go, but the numbers for BRU haven't been great this year so far (when comparing to its neighbours). Would be great if BRU would outperform its neighbours for a change..

What you are saying is not correct and you know that. Look at the Extra-EU flights, long haul. There is a huge increase in capacity and new long haul ops. Also during W10-11 we will see new long haul like Qatar and more long haul of SN + Ethiopian. BRU is performing very will in that segment -> a boost of +20% in transit and long haul!!

Economic crisis. You maybe not know that a lot of European airlines reduced their traffic to BRU last year and at the end of 2008. A few are back on schedule as before but the majority don't + that O&D is much lower since long time. Don't forget that Jetairfly was leased out some of their a/c to other companies due to no demand in Belgium, during the weekends a lot of a/c of SN are grounded. That's the difference with our neighbours.

[Atlantis]

I will give also this fact. In July the integrator decrease was -6%. This is remarcable as we could see all previous months that it was around -15%.

This could mean that from now on the regional hub of DHL is settled. I can be wrong but it could be.

[Boeing767copilot]

August 2010 Aug-10 Aug-09 Growth
Passengers (‘000) 1,783 1,741 2.4%
Cargo (‘000 tonnes) 37.7 35.1 7.3%
Movements (‘000) 19.6 19.5 -0.6%

Year-to-date August 2010 Jan-Aug 10 Jan-Aug 09 Growth
Passengers (‘000) 11,369 11,499 -1.1%
Cargo (‘000 tonnes) 315.7 297.2 6.2%

[sn26567]

August 2010 Aug-10 Aug-09 Growth
Passengers (‘000) 1,783 1,741 2.4%
Cargo (‘000 tonnes) 37.7 35.1 7.3%
Movements (‘000) 19.6 19.5 -0.6%

Year-to-date August 2010 Jan-Aug 10 Jan-Aug 09 Growth
Passengers (‘000) 11,369 11,499 -1.1%
Cargo (‘000 tonnes) 315.7 297.2 6.2%

See viewtopic.php?p=237993#p237993

[Atlantis]

August 2010 Aug-10 Aug-09 Growth
Passengers (‘000) 1,783 1,741 2.4%
Cargo (‘000 tonnes) 37.7 35.1 7.3%
Movements (‘000) 19.6 19.5 -0.6%

Year-to-date August 2010 Jan-Aug 10 Jan-Aug 09 Growth
Passengers (‘000) 11,369 11,499 -1.1%
Cargo (‘000 tonnes) 315.7 297.2 6.2%

Wait until the correct figures. If you look very close you will see that there are mistakes.

[Atlantis]

AUGUST


PAX

In August, Brussels Airport welcomed 1.783.000 pax or an increase with +2,4% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

Intra-EU: 1.042.000 pax: +1,2%
Extra-EU: 741.000 pax: +4,1%

The increase of Intra-EU traffic is due to good performance of some pure business routes and very good results in the LC-segment.


CARGO

In August, BRUcargo and Brussels Airport handled 37.700 ton of cargo or an increase with +7,3% when we compare this with the same month of last year.
Due to a lower demand during the holidays the full freighter was decreasing with 1% this time.
Important is also that the Integrator is again increasing and this with 1% while cargo on pax was again +34%


MOVEMENTS

In August there were 19.699 movements or an increase with +0,6% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

[LJ]

Don't forget that July is still showing the dismiss of SkyEurope, Ukraine International stopped flying Kiev and most of the European Airlines flies less then before the economic crisis.

I don't see the economic crisis hitting European traffic at AMS for example. Airlines come and go, but the numbers for BRU haven't been great this year so far (when comparing to its neighbours). Would be great if BRU would outperform its neighbours for a change..

What you are saying is not correct and you know that. Look at the Extra-EU flights, long haul. There is a huge increase in capacity and new long haul ops. Also during W10-11 we will see new long haul like Qatar and more long haul of SN + Ethiopian. BRU is performing very will in that segment -> a boost of +20% in transit and long haul!!

Economic crisis. You maybe not know that a lot of European airlines reduced their traffic to BRU last year and at the end of 2008. A few are back on schedule as before but the majority don't + that O&D is much lower since long time. Don't forget that Jetairfly was leased out some of their a/c to other companies due to no demand in Belgium, during the weekends a lot of a/c of SN are grounded. That's the difference with our neighbours.

Not saying that BRU isn't growing, but relative to its neighbours it performs not so great. Why improves traffic at other airports more quickly than at BRU? Just compare AMS with BRU. August pax numbers are up 2.4% at BRU against 3.6% at AMS (intra-Europe 1.2% against 2.7% at AMS, extra-Europe 4.1% against 5.7%). I'll not compare cargo numbers as AMS as the real growth markets (Latin America and China) aren't served from BRU with full freighters. You can compare many months in 2010 and you'll see the same trend. BRU is underperformning its peers

The fact that SN grounds a lot of its aircraft during the weekend is something which doesn't impact the relative performance of the airport as this isn't something new (though hopefully this will change a bit with their Club Med contract). The other factors you mention (reduction of traffic to BRU) aren't exclusively BRU issues either.

[Atlantis]

You can't compare AMS with BRU as both airports are playing in a totally other league. You can BRU compare with ZRH, CPH, ATH, VIE. There you will see a lot more difference.

But since a year you will see a move in charter flights from BRU to, especially, CRL. Jetairfly is growing on this airport and FR took lots of pax away from BRU. That's one of the reasons Intra-EU is underperforming.

[LJ]

You can't compare AMS with BRU as both airports are playing in a totally other league. You can BRU compare with ZRH, CPH, ATH, VIE. There you will see a lot more difference.

If you know the numbers of the airport you mention you know that BRU isn't performing well. CPH has an increase of approx 12.5%, ZRH grew approx 5% and VIE +13% in August. Thus significantly better than BRU (+2.4%).Only ATH performed worse (-/-10.6%). However, I doubt that the state of the Belgian economy can be compared to the state of the Greek economy (which is clearly visible in the development of the ATH statistics).

[liege-bierset]

Sorry: even if we all wish Belgian airports doing well, here we have to be fair: LJ is right !
An increase of 2.4% over August 2009 represents less than 1450 pax/day (2009 was an annus horribilis everywhere).
So no reason to make to much steam out of it.
Rgds.

[Atlantis]

You can't compare AMS with BRU as both airports are playing in a totally other league. You can BRU compare with ZRH, CPH, ATH, VIE. There you will see a lot more difference.

If you know the numbers of the airport you mention you know that BRU isn't performing well. CPH has an increase of approx 12.5%, ZRH grew approx 5% and VIE +13% in August. Thus significantly better than BRU (+2.4%).Only ATH performed worse (-/-10.6%). However, I doubt that the state of the Belgian economy can be compared to the state of the Greek economy (which is clearly visible in the development of the ATH statistics).

That's why I said to compare to these airports because of the difference (we know very well what other airports performance are).

Sorry: even if we all wish Belgian airports doing well, here we have to be fair: LJ is right !
An increase of 2.4% over August 2009 represents less than 1450 pax/day (2009 was an annus horribilis everywhere).
So no reason to make to much steam out of it.
Rgds.

I don't understand your post here or you don't understand this topic. This topic is about the monthly figures of Brussels Airport, that's it, pure figures, bad and good. But as I read well nobody was saying that the figures are very good. So please stop saying what other people haven't said.

[liege-bierset]

Dear Atlantis,
I'm maybe not as clever as you are, but read again what I have said !
Where have I written that you or someone else has claimed that the numbers are dithyrambic ?
I tend to believe that L.J. in his post was just trying to say that BRU is not in the fast lane when compared with other airports (in the same league, as you said).
Now, I of course know that this tread is about "pure figures" but every month, you post actual data and we thank you for the work; however to each post you add (official ?) comments. And this my point: Why always looking for an explanation to ups and downs, such as:
JAN: Bad weather.
FEB: CargoB.
MAR: Strikes, Saudi Arabian cancellations, Singapore Airlines, Royal Jordan.
APR: Integrator traffic decline, ash cloud,Egyptair (non)start-up, problems with ACE.
MAY: Strike of British.
JUN: BA strikes, dito for Greece, SkyEurope bankrupcy.
JUL: CRL taking away BRU customers, SkyEurope -again, and last but not least: Traveller used his own car
I like the last one ! That's a bit "One piece to put over the hole".
Seriously Atlantis, all this isn't very convincing. That juste what I wanted to say in my previous post. Sorry if I have been too straight.
Thanks for your hard work and for keeping this forum very interesting.
Rgds.
L-B