Ryanair started 10 new routes during JulyBirmingham International Airport handled 1,036,135 passengers
during July 2008 - an increase of 7.5% on the previous year
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
Thursday 7 August 2008