Birmingham Airport handled 763,706 passengers duringOctober 2011 - a decrease of 3.8% on the previous year
.
With many IT flights finishing earlier this year - a sign
of the harsh economic times - leisure passenger numbers
continued to fall dragging the overall total down despite
on excellent figures on many scheduled routes
.
During October significant growth was achieved on
scheduled flights to destinations such as -
scheduled flights to destinations such as -
Almeria 104.8%, Fuerteventura 83.7%, Malta 44.9%,
Milan 41.8%, Istanbul 40.6%, Arrecife 21.4%,
Munich 20.6%, Shannon 17.1% and Stuttgart 13.7%
.
Charter traffic which experience growth included -
Spain 4.4%, Greece 3.0% and Madeira 1.3%
.
Charter traffic which experience growth included -
Spain 4.4%, Greece 3.0% and Madeira 1.3%
.
Scheduled traffic accounted for 79.5% of the total
passenger traffic in October whilst charter passengers
made up the remaining 20.5%
.
passenger traffic in October whilst charter passengers
made up the remaining 20.5%
.
Thursday 17 November 2011
