THE AIRLINE PERSPECTIVE: United Kingdom

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

UNITED KINGDOM DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Flybe.com (BE)

2,762

201,482

32.9 %

(-0.5) %

2

easyJet (U2)

962

152,808

24.9 %

13.2 %

3

British Airways (BA)

766

116,712

19.0 %

2.4 %

4

bmi British Midland (BD)

182

25,431

4.1 %

33.6 %

5

Bmibaby (WW)

156

22,748

3.7 %

(-25.0) %

6

Aurigny Air Services (GR)

404

15,009

2.4 %

1.6 %

7

BA CityFlyer (CJ)

135

12,680

2.1 %

(-7.1) %

8

Eastern Airways (T3)

339

11,385

1.9 %

(-6.7) %

9

bmi regional (BD)

241

11,210

1.8 %

(-22.3) %

10

Ryanair (FR)

54

10,206

1.7 %

(-15.6) %

(Others)

1,014

33,449

5.5 %

(-21.4) %

TOTAL

7,015

613,120

-

0.4 % %

UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

British Airways (BA)

2,100

390,949

16.6 %

2.3 %

2

Ryanair (FR)

1,868

353,052

15.0 %

(-4.1) %

3

easyJet (U2)

2,034

329,712

14.0 %

6.1 %

4

Thomson Airways (TOM)

633

136,415

5.8 %

(-17.4) %

5

Monarch Airlines (ZB)

345

76,665

3.3 %

15.7 %

6

Jet2.com (LS)

413

69,926

3.0 %

9.0 %

7

Virgin Atlantic Airways (VS)

194

68,797

2.9 %

0.8 %

8

Thomas Cook Airlines (TCX)

267

58,473

2.5 %

(-35.5) %

9

Aer Lingus (EI)

268

45,712

1.9 %

(-8.5) %

10

Lufthansa (LH)

256

42,076

1.8 %

7.9 %

(Others)

5,162

783,711

33.3 %

(-2.3) %

TOTAL

13,540

2,355,488

-

(-2.1) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…