EAP
Newsletter October 2002
edited by airtraffic promotion
group
(no official newsletter of
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg)
Monthly news coverage of the
only tri-national airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg - Regio TriRhena
Features
of the month
Schedule
Updates: Lufthansa, Air France, Swiss, Cabo Verde Airlines - Charter
Updates: Winter 02/03 - Expresscargo Updates: Farnair, FedEx - Cargo Updates: Korean Air Cargo -
To be or not to be a hub - Statistics - Privatair - Iberia
>>
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Foto: Vincent Preneux
SCHEDULED UPDATES (see also www.amadeus.net)
LUFTHANSA will introduce larger equipment to and from
Frankfurt effective on March 30, 2003. The daily LH-Flight 3749/54
is set to be a B-737-500, seating 103 passengers.
AIR FRANCE is to re-introduce the 5th flight to and from
Paris CDG (AF 1157) on March 30, 2003, departing at 20.45 hours.
SWISS is offering a Saturdays flight to Sion with connections
for morning arrivals ex Scandinavia, Germany and the Benelux
starting on December 21.
The carrier feels the heat of Lufthansa's Munich drive. All flights
(4x daily, 26 a week) to Munich have been downgraded to Saab
340B/2000 until further notice. Friedrichshafen has been dropped.
CABO VERDE AIRLINES will switch its weekly service to Sal to
Thursday on December 19 (VR 657 via MUC, VR 656 ex SID nonstop).
EXPRESSCARGO UPDATES
FARNAIR ATR-72-200 HB-AFG had its first commercial uplift from Casablanca to the EAP on October 10.
Starting on Monday, October 14 the aircraft is now on the Cologne-EAP-Cologne routing five times a week on behalf of UPS.
ATR72-200 is new on the ramp as the latest model in a series of conversion programs giving new life to passenger airliners. Stripped of pax furnishings, the aircraft is equipped with a cargo door (2.90m x 1.77m), strengthened floors, and holds to take bulk freight (max. 75.5 m3), 10 LD3 containers or a mix of both. Payload is 8.6 to. and MTOW is at 22 to. The plane has been certified by FAA/JAA/Swiss FOCA.
FEDEX is set to offer five weekly Paris CDG flights with Airbus A-310-200 freighter (new : Friday evening outbound, Monday morning
inbound).
Foto: Marc
Seidel
CARGO UPDATES
KE DECIDED TO CONTINUE the weekly freighter service to Seoul with Boeing B-747-400F scheduled until October 2003.
The routing will also be changed and upgraded to a Round the World Service Seoul - Anchorage - JFK - EAP - Seoul. Day of operation for KE 524/518 is Friday, starting on November 1.
Korean applied for traffic rights between JFK and BSL. The US and Switzerland signed a Open Sky agreement. For the time-being, KE 524 will carry freight ex JFK to Seoul only.
Basel was a stop on TMA's round-the-world ops. 25 years ago.
CHARTER UPDATES
>> List of
all Winter 02/03 charters <<
Foto: Chris Waser
TO BE OR NOT TO BE A HUB may
matter to lobby groups. But reality is following a different path.
Hubbing can still happen if economics are right and infrastructure
is in line with demands requested. Please check new figures at the
BSL-hub.
destination local transfer aircraft flight/seat
(6 months o/w) pax pax a week
Alicante ALC 3'313 3'921 ERJ145 7 (350)
Amsterdam AMS 10'425 5'513 ERJ145 26 (1300)
Barcelona BCN 8'975 5'745 S2000 21 (1050)
Berlin THF 9'861 6'051 S2000 27 (1350)
Bilbao BIO 1'369 1'750 ERJ145 6 (300)
Birmingham BHX 5'442 1'263 ERJ145 12 (600)
Bordeaux BOD 2'686 1'744 S2000 7 (350)
Brussels BRU 9'036 4'072 S2000 25 (1250)
Copenhagen CPH 5'707 6'168 ERJ145 20 (1000)
Düsseldorf DUS 7'102 2'703 S2000 20 (1000)
Florence FLR 1'763 3'475 S2000 7 (350)
Geneva GVA 6'171 13'149 EQV. 27 (1350)
Gothenburg GOT 1'659 3'544 ERJ145 7 (350)
Hamburg HAM 8'321 6'384 ERJ145 27 (1350)
Hannover HAJ 2'046 2'411 S2000 12 (600)
Helsinki HEL 2'741 3'088 ERJ145 7 (350)
Lisbon/Porto LIS4'107 364 ERJ145 6 (300)
London City LCY 8'947 2'530 S2000 18 (900)
London LHR 34'863 9'354 MD83 21 (3150)
Lugano LUG 2'526 6'242 S2000 20 (1000)
Madrid MAD 4'319 1'244 ERJ145 7 (350)
Manchester MAN 7789 1'856 ERJ145 18 (900)
Milano MXP 2'273 1'213 SF340 12 (395)
Munich MUC 11'224 8'446 EQV. LH/LX
Nice NCE 5'894 3'083 EQV. AF/LX
Rome ROM 3'377 2'675 ERJ145 7 (350)
Sevilla SVQ 2'607 3'819 ERJ145 7 (350)
Stockholm STO 3'066 2'273 ERJ145 7 (350)
Toulouse TLS 1'460 1'532 S2000 7 (350)
Vienna VIE 9'842 7'247 ERJ145 27 (1350)
rates C-class Y-class C-class Y-class
BSL-GOT 1751 Eur 390 Eur GOT-BIO 1666 Eur 943 Eur
BSL-HEL 2043 Eur 370 Eur HEL-SVQ 2393 Eur 2568 Eur
BSL-STO 1960 Eur 325 Eur STO-FLR 1815 Eur 487 Eur
The ratio local/transfer& high/low
priced tickets is guesswork !
Photo: Christian
Drändle
EAP 3RD QUARTER 2002 PAX & AIRCARGO RESULTS
All figures are still reflecting a slump in traffic. SWISS slipped by 9% in September (-9% in nine months). Lufthansa reported strong gains in passenger volumes in September 2002 (+30%). Newcomer Khalifa Airways gave a boost to the (non-European) carrier segment (+32% in September, in nine months +48%).
Air France felt the walk-out of its pilots in September which depressed volumes by 7%. (-5% in nine months).
Scheduled pax 218'954 -9% (1'870'590 -7%)
Charter pax 75'872 -22% (498'700 - 23%)
Total pax 295'187 -12% (2'374'449 -11%)
Expresscargo was at 1'851 to. in September (+3%). Nine months into 2002 saw a minus of 2% (16'589 to).
Commercial movements were at 7'519 (-14%), and over a nine-month period at 67'248 (-13%).
The EAP continues to push important projects like extending the passenger terminal, site developments at the expresscargo zone, improving the (old) cargo terminal.
Rail access remains a strategic target for 2010.
LATEST NEWS
PRIVATE AIR is mulling a BBJ- shuttle project aimed at multi-national companies based in the greater Basel Area (TAB). Attention is being given to pharma executives among others traveling in business class on regular flights. Presently, Pharma is primarily booking on Air France, Lufthansa and SWISS.
New safety and security procedures at major hubs after 9/11 time spent traveling is becoming a cost factor. So, alternatives are being studied en-route to the US ex Basel.
SWISS does not anticipate to move on this unless heavily pressured as it will take away lucrative business class passengers from its Zürich-Newark service.
IBERIA is number seven to codeshare with SWISS ex Basel, Geneva, and Zürich. All flights to Barcelona (three times a day) and Madrid (once a day) will carry Iberia flight
numbers.
AIRTRAFFIC PROMOTION GROUP, WANDERSTRASSE 77, 4054 BASEL - TEL./FAX. ++41 61 302 5775 / E-MAIL.
EAPNEWS@HOTMAIL.COM
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