On the DUB-LHR route passenger numbers show a 5% Month on Month (MoM) reduction but a 12.7% reduction over the same month last year. Year on Year (YoY) the route has lost 7% over 2007.
The loss of Heathrow passengers to Gatwick continues this month. The MoM reduction is a large 18% but YoY the route still shows 26% growth. DUB-STN showed a 3% YoY reduction for the month.
In Cork, Ryanair would appear to have halted the loss to Aer Lingus on the London routes. The CRK-STN and CRK-LGW routes show a similar YoY reduction at -2% and -5% respectively for the month but Aer Lingus which had shown a 16.5% YoY growth on the LHR route up to August have fallen back to 13% YoY growth. Passenger figures for September fell by 18% over August on the CRK-LHR route.
In Shannon, the LGW route shows a 67% YoY growth in numbers in absolute terms due to the second daily service. The SNN-STN route shows it''s first monthly decline in MoM numbers since April but still shows a healthy 17% YoY growth.
On the BEL-LHR route, Aer Lingus suffered a 17% drop in passenger numbers MoM over August, even though there was just one less calendar day in the month.
In September the number of passengers carried on the route fell back to 24,773 compared to a monthly average of just over 30,000 ( calculated over 5 years ) when the carrier operated on the SNN-LHR route.
Aer Lingus accumulated loss of passenger on the four LHR slots is now running at 66,487 since the switch in January.
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