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Eurocontrol Network Report : LCCs grow market share, legacy carriers stagnate and delays are getting worse
Eurocontrol’s October Network Manager Report confirmed that growth is continuing, with October 2015 average daily movements 1.2% higher than for October 2014. The last five months (June to October) have achieved the highest monthly totals recorded and traffic has now grown back and passed the previous high year of 2011.
However, delays are growing at a much faster rate than traffic. In October 2015, 20% of flights were delayed for longer than 15 minutes, compared to 18.7% in October 2014. That is an average of about 5,650 flights per day in 2015 versus 5,220 in October 2014: an increase of 8% in delayed flights with an increase of 1.5% in traffic.
The top 10 airlines continue to account for about 36% of total daily movements. But only five had growth – Alitalia (13.3%), Turkish (11.3%), Ryanair (9.3%), Easyjet (5.8%) and BA (2.5%). The other five all operated less daily flights than in 2014.
