AMS - UK Market Developments 2010

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In January of each year, I post a review of the AMS-UK-AMS market developments over the past 12 months. As the United Kingdom is Schiphol most important market, it is interesting to see what is happening to individual routes.

Herewith an overview of the AMS <-> UK passenger market in the year 2010.

The year 2010 has been another difficult year for Schiphol's most important market. The UK is still suffering lower demand for air travel due the economic crisis, but on top of that the Icelandic volcano eruption resulted in a long closure of all flights between the UK-AMS. In addition snow problems closed several UK airports for days in early and late 2010.

But even under these difficult conditions three AMS routes managed to set a new annual passenger record:

1. Liverpool = 346.008 plus 19,7% - new both EZY & KLC 4x/daily each
2. Stansted = 278.781 plus 7,7% - EZY increased frequency
3. London City 366,306 = plus 5,9% - CityJet & BA

The biggest losses were reported by:

1. London Heathrow 1.332.798 = minus 11,7% - departure BMI
2. Cardiff 125.118 = minus 7,5% - KLC down to 3x/daily
3. Manchester 436.927 = minus 7,1% - big losses early in year due to LPL, growth with new EZY flights since November

Total Market - AMS-UK-AMS:
- 2010 = 6.484.800 -0.9%
- 2009 = 6.544.135 -9,6%
- 2008 = 7.232.400 -7,3%
- 2007 = 7.801.718 + 1%

Markets by Size:

AMS - UK Market Size 2010 - 2009
1 LHR 1.332.798 - 1.510.045 (record 1.850.000 in 2006)
2 LGW 548.622 - 542.681 (record 670.000 in 2007)
3 EDI 494.777 - 452.190 (record 502.500 in 2007)
4 MAN 436.927 - 470.252 (record 607.500 in 2006)
5 BHX 426.822 - 411.761 (record 492.300 in 2008)
6 LCY 366.306 - 345.906 = new pax. record
7 LPL 346.088 - 289.014 = new pax. record
8 STN 278.781 - 258.844 = new pax. record
9 GLA 260.988 - 274.546 (record 314.700 in 2008)
10 ABZ 247.354 - 254.067 (record 289.500 in 2008)
11 NCL 244.143 - 252.519 (record 341.779 in 2006)
12 LTN 234.498 - 219.199 (record 355.088 in 2006)
13 LBA 223.394 - 228.062 (record 294.269 in 2006)
14 BRS 222.417 - 230.341 (record 283.085 in 2007)
15 CWL 125.118 - 135.315 (record 225.444 in 2007)
16 NWI 121.767 - 120.731 (record 155.368 in 2007)
17 HUY 113.714 - 121.047 (record 141.097 in 2008)
18 MME 101.543 - 104.491 (record 123.679 in 2007)
19 EMA 101.119 - 106.910 (record 132.549 in 2007)
20 SOU 91.910 - 91.098 (record 102.730 in 2008)
21 BFS 89.909 - 91.031 (record 138.799 in 2008)
22 DONC 40.690 - 0 (record 49.267 in 2006)
23 EXE 35.037 - 34.085 (record 40.459 in 2008)


Stations ranked by growth/decline in passenger market:

1 LPL 19,7%
2 EDI 9,4%
3 STN 7,7%
4 LTN 7,0%
5 LCY 5,9%
6 BHX 3,7%
7 EXE 2,8%
8 LGW 1,1%
9 SOU 0,9%
10 NWI 0,9%
11 BFS -1,2%
12 LBA -2,0%
13 ABZ -2,6%
14 MME -2,8%
15 NCL -3,3%
16 BRS -3,4%
17 GLA -4,9%
18 EMA -5,4%
19 HUY -6,1%
20 MAN -7,1%
21 CWL -7,5%
22 LHR -11,7%
23 DONC 0