With 31 March marking the start of the Easter holidays and the strike by security staff at Heathrow Terminal 5, Cirium have revealed the current state of the aviation industry here in the UK.
Easter school holidays:
- During the Easter school holidays (31 March – 16 April), 44,074 flightsare scheduled to depart UK airports – equating to nearly 8 million seats
- 14 April is scheduled to be the busiest day across the holiday period, with 2,776 flightsdeparting UK airports
- The most popular international destinations for UK departures will be Dublin, followed by Amsterdam, Malaga, Palma and Alicante
- easyJet is projected to be the busiest airline during the holidays, with over 9,000 departuresfrom the UK, followed by British Airways, Ryanair Loganair, and Jet2
- Heathrow Airport will see the largest number of departures, 10,696, followed by Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester and Edinburgh.
Easter weekend:
- During the Easter weekend 2023 (7 – 10 April), 10,286 flightsare scheduled to depart UK airports – equating to over 1.8 million seats
- Easter departures from UK airports remain 12% downcompared to the Easter weekend in 2019 when there were 11,743 departing flights
- Departures are up 12%compared to Easter 2022, and 655% up compared to 2021, showing the continued recovery of the industry
- The most popular international destinations for UK departures will be Dublin, followed by Amsterdam, Palma, Malaga and Alicante
- easyJet is projected to be the busiest airline throughout the weekend, with 2,151 departuresfrom the UK, followed by British Airways, Ryanair and Jet2
- Heathrow Airport will see the largest number of departures, 2,493, followed by Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester and Edinburgh.
*Easter weekend dates:
- 19-22 April 2019 / 2-5 April 2021 / 15-18 April 2022 / 7-10 April 2023
Heathrow Terminal 5 security strike:
- During the strike period (31 March – 9 April inclusive), Heathrow is scheduled to see 6,253 departures– equating to over 1.3 million seats
- British Airways had been scheduled to operate 3,185 departuresfrom Heathrow Airport* during the strike period (51% of LHR services) – equating to nearly 650,00 seats
- However, in the last week, this figure has dropped to 3,106 departures (excluding last minute cancellations) – equating to a loss of over 12,700 seats
- Edinburgh is projected to see the highest number of BA flights during the strike period (103 departures), followed by Glasgow (78), Barcelona (75), Amsterdam (72), and New York JFK (70).
*Including Terminal 3 and Terminal 5
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