Birmingham Airport handled 1,031,259 passengers during
August 2012 - an increase of 9.1% on the previous year
August was always going to be an exceptional month
and it did not disappoint! - the strong growth seen at
the end of July when the two additional based Monarch
aircraft arrived at Birmingham continued throughout the
month resulting in the passengers numbers exceeding
"one million in a month" for the first time since 2009
Unfortunately this mini boom will be a one off and is
linked to the circumstances surrounding the planned
closure of bmibaby (which took in early September)
which has seen Monarch double up on many of their
routes/services for the peak summer season while at
the same time East Midlands Airport had already lost
a number of bmibaby routes/services
While September started strongly now that bmibaby
have ceased operations - with the loss of 4 Birmingham
based aircraft - and flybe and Monarch have added
additional services at East Midlands expect things
to rapidly return to normal
During August significant growth was achieved
on scheduled flights to destinations such as -
Dubrovnik 267.1%, Hamburg 93.1%, Milan 79.6%,
Nice 72.2%, Avignon 69.1%, Larnaca 68.0%,
Dalaman 66.1%, Katowice 53.7%, Palma 49.9%,
Istanbul 49.5%, Gerona 44.2% and Ibiza 37.1%
Charter traffic which experience growth included -
Egypt 87.7%, Tunisia 42.9% and Italy 35.4%Scheduled traffic accounted for 75.1% of the total
passenger traffic in August whilst charter passengers
made up the remaining 24.9%
Friday 14 September 2012
Falcon 900 N615MS which had arrived on Sunday evening on
Falcon 900B N900MG was an afternoon arrival
Citation CJ3 D-CJAK which had arrived on Sunday
Linxair Citation Excel S5-BDG made a brief evening visit
Robinson R-44 G-WALI was a day stopping visitor Photo: Mike Hollick
OLT Express Fokker 100 D-AGPH operated the lunchtime
.... with OLT Express titles by the front passenger door
Lufthansa Regional Embraer 195LR D-AEBS operated their
Air France Airbus A319-111 F-GRXE operated their afternoon
Turkmenistan Boeing 737-82K EZ-A004 operated
CityJet Avro RJ85 EI-RJY was a morning arrival operating
.... followed in by Loganair/flybe Saab 340B G-LGNC from the
bmibaby Boeing 737-3Q8 G-TOYI was a morning departure
.... with Boeing 737-3Q8 G-TOYD an afternoon departure
Citation CJ2 OE-FLP was a day stopping visitor while....
.... Tyrol Air Ambulance Citation Bravo OE-GPS made
GainJet/Multiflight Boeing 737-329 SX-MTF which had
Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-231 TC-JRV operated
Brussels Airlines Dash 8-402Q G-ECOI which is operated
Balkan Holidays Airbus A320-212 LZ-BHB operated the
Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS EI-EVA operated their afternoon
Luftwaffe Transall C-160D 51+02 was a morning visitor 
Citation CJ2 D-IJOA was a day stopping visitor....
.... while Citation Excel G-VECT which had been on maintenance
Other visitors included Piper Cheyenne III D-IABA....
.... Piper Cherokee Arrow III G-OKEN
.... Cirrus SR-22 N150ZZ
.... and Robin HR.200G-GMKE Photos: Mike Hollick
Birmingham Airport handled 1,031,259 passengers during
Friday 14 September 2012
