July 05, 2006

Allegiant Passenger Numbers

About two weeks ago, I sent a letter to our airport liaison requesting number of flights and total number of passengers since inception thru the end of June. Since that time, we found out that ORH had their 100th flight and 10,000 passenger.

Monday I received a letter from Airpor Liaison Niddrie stating that Allegiant did not want to make this information public at ORH (or any other airport that they fly out of) and that the airport administration would honor that request. Guess it will to be to hard to keep track ourselves since the total passenger count out of ORH and Allegiant passengers is one and the same.

I will not push the matter, but an airport in the last year of the of its current management partnership losing $2,000,000 per year to decide not reveal passenger counts to the public is a puzzling decision.

13 comments:

Joe Gargery said...

They reported these numbers to the DOT

January Departing Pax: 1106
February Departing Pax: 1610
March Departing PAx: 2042

January Arriving Pax: 1149
February Arriving Pax: 1294
March Arriving Pax: 2081

Bill Randell said...

Charley:

Thanks... Where do you get these numbers on-line??

Bill

Joe Gargery said...

www.bts.gov
-> Data & Statistics
-> By Mode: Aviation
-> Air Carrier Statistics (Form 41 Traffic)
-> T100 Domestic Segment .Download
Filter Geography: Massachusetts
Select: Year
Month
Origin City Name
Dest City Name
unique carrier name
passengers

Click Download....

Bill Randell said...

Charley:

Again thanks...

Bill

Anonymous said...

Mr Farley's figures detail 4800 departing and 4500 arriving for a total of 9300 for Jan, Feb, & Mar.

So if the total passenger count through almost the end of June was 10,000, then it apears only 700 passengers flew Allegiant in three months (including the period Dec 21 to Dec 31).


When the 10,000th passenger is counted, I assume that includes arrivals and departures?

Can this be correct?

Also, what is PAX? Paxton?

Bill Randell said...

Charley:

This is awesom.

Thanks

Bill

Joe Gargery said...

Sorry, Pax is passengers.

The 10,000th passenger was the 10,000th departure.

From the Telegram Article:

"Ms. Jacobson congratulated Ms. Dutra on the distinction of being the 10,000th embarking passenger of the airline"

Bill Randell said...

JAHN:

This confused me also... The 10,000 passenger goal in the paper was for outbound only.

Charley cited both the inbound and outbound numbers.

Thanks

Bill

Joe Gargery said...

"Allegiant did not want to make this information public at ORH (or any other airport that they fly out of) and that the airport administration would honor that request."

Whatever happened to the Freedom of Information Act?

Bill Randell said...

Charley:

Your are right again.

Technically the airport administration can not decide what information that they want to or not want to release to public, irregardless of what Allegian may or may not want. By right they need to release any information that they have which is requested within 10 days.

Thanks

Bill

Anonymous said...

Now I am more puzzled.


If we had 4800 departures in Jan, Feb & Mar, then we had 5200 (10,000 - 4800) departures for Apr 1 to June 26, 2006 (and Dec 21 to 31, 2005). 5200 departures over a 13 week period = 400 per week = 100 per flight = 79 % capacity during Apr, May, & Jun

So the departures for Apr, May, & June have held steady or increased slightly relative to the Jan to Mar period? Seems a bit unusual? If this is so, I say GREAT !! Filling more seats to Orlando
during the 2nd Q is a fantastic trend, if it's true. Am I missing something here?

Mr Farley, I assume the Apr, MAy & Jun DOT figures are not available yet?

And were we not running only 3 flights per week during part of the 2nd Quarter??

Bill Randell said...

JAHN:

You are right. April, May and June may have had an increase. At the same time, I have to believe that April/May/June have to be the peak months to travel to Florida.

I will let Mr Farley confirm but I believe airports report their numbers qtrly so the April/May/June numbers take some time to be reflected on the website.

Right now we have three flights per week. Myself I am concerned about filling three flights per week during the July/August/Sept time period.

Bill

Bill Randell said...

Jahn:

2nd qtr we had four flights per week.

Bill