July 2008 passenger figures - airport celebrates three new records!!

Ryanair started 10 new routes during July

Birmingham International Airport handled 1,036,135 passengers
during July 2008 - an increase of 7.5% on the previous year

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This is the highest monthly total of July on record and smashed

through the million passenger barrier for the first time in 2008

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The Airport achieved another record last month as it exceeded

the 9.5m passenger mark for first time in a rolling 12 month period

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From the 1st August 2007 to the 31st July 2008 the Airport has

achieved a total of 9,530,628, which is an impressive increase of

4.3% over the previous 12 months total

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Joe Kelly, Acting Managing Director of Birmingham International

Airport, said, “It is another recording breaking month for the

Airport, following in the path of February, March, April and May

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Additionally, our rolling 12 month record of over 9.5m passengers is

definitely something to shout about. Biarritz, Bratislava, Bydgoszcz,

Gdansk, Olbia, Perpignan, Stockholm and Trapani were all new routes

that started from the Airport in July, helping to reach these record

passenger numbers

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“Looking forward to the rest of the year we are delighted that

Turkish Airlines has announced a new service to Istanbul starting

on 15th December 2008, and with Ryanair adding an extra ten routes

from October it should be a busy second half of the year as well.”

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In July, growth was achieved on Non EU routes of 7.3% and EU of

20.6%. The Irish Republic saw an increase of 12.9%.

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Scheduled routes that experienced growth in July include:

Bratislava (+2404%), Larnaca (+114.6%), Inverness (+107.2%),

Marseille (+75.4%), Hamburg (+40%), Warsaw (+38.3%),

Milan (+33.9%), Krakow (+32.2%), Dundee (+24.5%),

Arrecife (+22.6%), Dusseldorf (+21.2%), Lisbon (+20%),

Mahon (+19.9%), Gothenburg (+18.9%), Faro (+13.1%),

Hanover (+10.7%), Almeria (+9.1%), Amsterdam (+5.7%),

Ercan (+5%), Alicante (+4.8%), Zurich (+4.2%)

and Murcia (+3.2%)

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Charter routes which experienced growth were:

Egypt (+88%), Morocco (+34.1%), Italy (+15.2%),

Croatia (+13.2%), Dominican Republic (+12.9%)

and Turkey (+6.1%)

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Scheduled traffic accounted for 69.4% of the total

passenger traffic in July whilst charter passengers

made upthe remaining 30.6%

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Thursday 7 August 2008