Author: Bilgesu Caferoglu, Burcu Süeda Acar (
http://burcusuedaacar219.blogspot.com.tr/)
AMSTERDAM- REYKJAVİC
1)CITIES
Netherlands 17,02 million (2016) Iceland 334.252 (2016)
Amsterdam 821.752 (2015) Reykjavic 122.141 (2015)
From these numbers we can understand that Amsterdam made up
4.8% of the total Netherlands population and Reykjavik made up 36.5%
of the total Iceland population. While we calculate this percentage,
we assume that cities populations do not increase significantly
from 2015 to 2016 because we could not find exact number of population
of cities for 2016. Netherlands has much more population than Iceland
however most of the population of Iceland is accumulated in capitol
Reykjavik.
2) AIRPORTS
Reykjavik has two airports. First one is Reykjavic Airport
which has IATA code of RKV, ICAO code of BIRK and second one is Keflavik Internatıonal Airport
which has IATA code of KEF, ICAO code of BIKF. Amsterdam has one airport called
Schiphol Airpot which has IATA code
of AMS and ICAO code of EHAM.
You can find the information of number of
passangers in RKV, KEF and AMS from following tables;
TYPE OF PASSANGER
|
NUMBER OF PASSANGER
|
Domestic
|
377.672
|
International
|
39.637
|
Total
|
471.309
|
Table
2.1 : Reykjavic Airport (2016’s datas)
TYPE OF PASSANGER
|
NUMBER OF PASSANGER
|
Domestic
|
27.481
|
International
|
6.821.358
|
Total
|
6.848.839
|
Table
2.2: Keflavik İnternational Airport
(2016’s Data)
TYPE OF PASSANGER
|
NUMBER OF PASSANGER
|
Domestic
|
3.988
|
International
|
63.621.546
|
Total
|
63.625.534
|
Table
2.3 : Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (2016’s datas)
Let me calculate Total Air Passangers per Captia( Number of passengers at one airport, divided by the total population) for each airport by using the datas from the above items:
Reykjavic Airport
417.309/ 122.141 = 3,41
Keflavik International Airport 6.848.839/ 122.141= 56,07
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
63.625.534/ 821.752= 77,42
3)DIRECT FLIGHTS
There are two direct flights between Amsterdan and Reykjavic which is between AMS and KEF.
Wow Air and Iceland Air have direct flights between
two cities while other airlines such as SAS, Lufthansa, ect have flights via their hubs.
4) ROUTE CAPACITY
Between Reykjavik and Amsterdam, there are 3 direct flights planned daily as shown in the table below.
And between Amsterdam and Reykjavic, there are also 3 daily direct flights.
The aircraft types used on the route are:
WOW 442: Airbus A320 Icelandair 500: Boeing 767-300
WOW 446: Airbus A320 Icelandair 501: Boeing 767-300WOW 443: Airbus A320
WOW 447: Airbus A320
An Airbus A320 is able to carry 174 passengers while a Boeing
767-300 can carry 248. There are 4 A320 trips and 2 767 trips which means total
number of passengers travelling from either end of the route can be
maximum 1192.
The air distance between Amsterdam and Reykjavik is 2.041
kilometers. Using both data, we can simply calculate daily ASK which is
Available Seats times Kilometers which is in this case 1192 x 2041 =
2.432.872
Since this route seems to have daily scheduled flights and
nearly no competition to increase the daily trips, we can safely assume
that if daily available seat kilometers in total is 2.432.872 we can
find weekly, monthly and yearly ASK's by multiplying with the
number of days which corresponds to :
Weekly ASK:17.030.104
Monthly ASK: 72.986.160
Yearly ASK: 887.998.280
At this point, we have something to add. To travel from
Reykjavik to Amsterdam or vice versa, one has to travel an earth surface
distance of 3212 kilometers which include car rides, ferries and ect.
Just from this example we can see how time and effort beneficial
aviation is.
5) ROUTE TRAFFIC
The graphic below represents the traffic data of the
Icelandair in the year 2017.
We can calculate the Load Factor using the formula Revenue
Passenger Kilometer / Available Seat Kilometer. Which then corresponds
to RP/AS per route. On this route, from the ticket availability of
past week per flight, we came to the assumption that daily travellers
were around 980-990 pax. Then we calculated the load factor using
the ASK which we found above and RPK we found with this assumption, (1192/985=82.63%) which is almost exactly the same as the
official traffic data stated above.
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