It was a busy Spring Bank Holiday weekend Birmingham International Airport handled 877,232 passengers during
May including 625,770 scheduled passengers and 251,462 charter
May including 625,770 scheduled passengers and 251,462 charter
passengers spread across the two passenger terminals; surpassing
the previous highest figure recorded for the month of May and a 5.7%
increase over the previous year
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It is the fourth straight month of record-breaking figures at
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It is the fourth straight month of record-breaking figures at
Birmingham, with February, March and April also seeing the
Airport handling monthly bests
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Joe Kelly, Acting Managing Director at Birmingham International
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Joe Kelly, Acting Managing Director at Birmingham International
Airport, said, "Again we have seen another record-breaking month
here at the Airport and May has been extremely busy with a number
of new routes launching from Birmingham, offering passengers an
increasing range of destinations to choose from. New services
starting in May included Marseille with Ryanair, Hurghada and
Skiathos with Thomas Cook, Montego Bay and Punta Cana with
Thomsonfly, Hamburg with Lufthansa, Dundee with flybe/Loganair
and Warsaw with bmibaby, which all represents even more great
news for people travelling from their local airport"
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In May, growth was achieved on non-EU routes of 15.9% and EU of
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In May, growth was achieved on non-EU routes of 15.9% and EU of
10.8%, with the Irish Republic seeing an increase of 19.3% and the
Channel Isles a rise of 15.7%
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Scheduled routes that experienced growth in April include:
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Scheduled routes that experienced growth in April include:
Bratislava (+902.7%), Dundee (+556.6%), Marseille (+366.7%),
Rome (+162.7%), Inverness (+104.2%), Bergamo (+100.0%),
Waterford (+78.0%), Ibiza (+70.8%), Split (+60.3%),
Larnaca (+50.9%), Malta (+39.1%), Hamburg (+27.1%),
Mahon (+27%), Krakow (+25.6%), Prague (+17.4%),
Dubai (+16.7%), Dusseldorf (+12.0%), Almeria (+11.1%),
La Rochelle (+10.4%), Paphos (+9.7%), Amsterdam (+9.0%),
Toronto (+8.1%), Tenerife (+7.2%), Palma (+7.2%),
Murcia (+6.3%), Faro (+4.2%) and Aberdeen (+3.8%)
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Charter traffic which experienced growth were
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Charter traffic which experienced growth were
Austria (+45.7%), Italy (+27.6%), Egypt (+23.7%),
Turkey (+19.5%), Mexico (+13.5%), USA (+12.7%),
Bulgaria (+3.1%) and Spain (+0.6%)
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Scheduled traffic accounted for 71.3% of the total passenger traffic
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Scheduled traffic accounted for 71.3% of the total passenger traffic
in May whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 28.7%.
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Thursday 12 June 2008