Birmingham International Airport handled 965,784 passengersduring August 2010 - a fall of 4.8% on the previous year
.
While total passengers were down again those that did travel
continued to fly further - long and medium haul routes did well
with Dubai up 8.9% and Turkey still up 19.9% despite the
collapse of a number of specialist tour operators
.
During August signicant growth was achieved on
scheduled flights to destinations such as -
scheduled flights to destinations such as -
Arrecife 134.6%, Tenerife 72.4%, Gerona 69.1%
Ibiza 65.7%, Toulouse 58.9%, Hamburg 47.5%
Stuttgart 40.9%, Bydgoszcz 36.9%, Cork 31.9%
Frankfurt 31.1%, Brest 30.5%, Larnaca 28.9%
Milan 28.1%, Bergerac 27.0%, Guernsey 23.5%
Teheran 18.3%, Hannover 18.1%, Faro 14.4%
Zurich 11.2%, Nice 9.5% and Dubai 8.9%
.
Charter traffic which experience growth included -
Dominican Republic 130.1%, Croatia 76.8%,
Mexico 28.3% and Turkey 19.9%
.
Scheduled traffic accounted for 68.3% of the total
passenger traffic in August whilst charter passengers
made up the remaining 31.7%
passenger traffic in August whilst charter passengers
made up the remaining 31.7%
.
Tuesday 14 September 2010