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MrHMSH wrote:Didn't EK pull the A380 out of BHX at one point? When did it come back if so?
TheGeordielad wrote:MrHMSH wrote:Didn't EK pull the A380 out of BHX at one point? When did it come back if so?
No they pulled a B77W but not a A388
makozi wrote:Isn't Birmingham quite a short and challenging runway for A380s?
JAAlbert wrote:Is Emirates able to fill two 380s regularly? What makes BHX so popular a destination?
JAAlbert wrote:Is Emirates able to fill two 380s regularly? What makes BHX so popular a destination?
JAAlbert wrote:Is Emirates able to fill two 380s regularly? What makes BHX so popular a destination?
gunnerman wrote:Birmingham is the UK's second biggest city with a population of 1.1 million.
Chaostheory wrote:gunnerman wrote:Birmingham is the UK's second biggest city with a population of 1.1 million.
You trouble maker!
^JAAlbert
BHX is in the Midlands which is home to a large Pakistani (Mirpuri) and Indian (Punjabi and Gujarati) population which would probably supply enough demand alone to fill a 380. Not to mention a largish catchment area creeping into Wales. With that said, I don't think it approaches anywhere near MAN's catchment area which is the entire North West and parts of the North East.
gunnerman wrote:Within a 2-hour drive, BHX has the biggest catchment of any UK airport, being 35 million including the Midlands, west London and the Thames Valley. In contrast, MAN has 21.5m, lower even than STN (25m).
User001 wrote:gunnerman wrote:Within a 2-hour drive, BHX has the biggest catchment of any UK airport, being 35 million including the Midlands, west London and the Thames Valley. In contrast, MAN has 21.5m, lower even than STN (25m).
And the issue with having 'the largest catchment' is that it means there are some serious catchment overlaps writhing that 25m.
You have the mega hub of LHR to the south, as well as an ever growing Luton and Stansted, East Midlands to the east (which until recently actually carried more pax on some key sun routes than BHX) and then you have Manchester to the North.
This means that while BHX has 'the biggest catchment', it means that large catchment has more choice and hence LTN has more pax than BHX, STN is twice has big and Manchester over twice the size.
Ergo, catchments mean little when you are in a super competative market.