These figures and a decline in exports are the start of a further decline in economic activity.
The next Exchequer returns for the jan mar period will see a reduction in spend thus proving austerity is forcing the economy into a depression.
This allied to a budget taking 3.5 billion
out will lead to a bleak 2011/12

What? People AREN’T going on holidays in the winter?

Not to worry, the Queen and Obama’s visit should kick extra tourism into gear any time now.. Lol

The decline in movements doesn’t necessarily correspond to passenger decline.

The Cork decline looks bad, but amounts to 6 movements a day. Then you look at what those movements were.

The Manx2 flight to Belfast, which was canned after the crash, accounted for 4 of them, yet the plane only had a capacity of 19 and usually carried 10-15 people.

Also gone are the Air SouthWest flights to Newquay and Plymouth after the airline ceased operating. Their aircraft would have been the same size that Aer Arann use.

And then there seem to be fewer ski charters.

Passenger numbers are only down by 2%, despite the large fall in flight movements.

The useless DAA should sell the old terminal building in Cork airport to Ryanair. Let them make a regional hub out of it like they wanted to do when the new one opened and then we’ll see the numbers rise…at the moment its just sitting there empty…lateral thinking is needed.

Part of the decrease may have to do with a slowdown in emigration also.

And partly the impact of circa 15 flights in and 15 flights out of the Galway Airport that are no more

These figures refer to number of flights – not necessarily the number of passengers. Airlines may be running less flights with higher passenger loads, or bigger aircraft.