December 2010 passenger figures

Birmingham Airport handled 490,714 passengers during

December 2010 - a fall of 11.0% on the previous year

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As a result BHX handled 8,577,822 passengers in 2010,

a fall of 5.8% compared with 2009

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The combination of the adverse weather - both in the UK

and Europe - and the Spanish ATC strike at the start of

the month resulted in numerous flight cancellations

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During December significant growth was achieved on

scheduled flights to destinations such as -

Malta 52.3%, Brussels 33.5%, Arrecife 29.5%,

Milan 28.8%, Gothenburg 27.9%, Krakow 22.4%,

Stuttgart 19.3%, Ashkhabad 15.3%, Dubai 14.6%

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Charter traffic which experience growth included -

Finland 33.0%, Austria 24.1% and Mexico 17.8%

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Scheduled traffic accounted for 85.5% of the total

passenger traffic in December whilst charter passengers

made up the remaining 14.5%

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Friday 14 January 2011