BMI has reported strong growth in both passenger volumes and load factors following the scrapping of its conventional fare structure and the introduction of a low cost style, one way fare strategy. Passenger volumes in September for bmi and bmibaby increased by 18% compared with last year, with bmi seeing a rise of 12% in the full service sector of the business. Load factors also increased by 8% to 72%. Domestic services, in particular, benefited dramatically with routes where there is strong competition from low cost carriers performing exceptionally well. Services between Heathrow and Belfast saw an increase of 67% with services from Heathrow to Manchester increasing by 28%. Scotland also performed well, with flights to Edinburgh showing 24% and Glasgow 14% increases. Transatlantic services from Manchester faired well in September with an overall increase of 57%. The number of passengers flying to Washington rose by 38% with Chicago enjoying a massive rise of 72%. However true comparisons are very difficult to make as the world effectively stopped flying for some days last September with traffic the following months ”slow”.
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