Birmingham Airport handled 654,683 passengers during March 2014
- an increase of 4.5% on the previous year
Another excellent month! - March and April always need to be looked at
as one because of the moveable dates of Easter (which is in April this
year) and on an underlying basis the increase in March was in line with
the rolling 8% increase achieved in the previous three months
Paul Kehoe, Birmingham Airport’s CEO, said: "March has been another
great month for us and continues the upward trend that we have seen
in recent months, where more and more passengers are choosing to fly
from Birmingham"
"These passenger figures mean we enter the summer season in a good
position and hope to build on this success. The completion of the runway
extension and the introduction of nine new routes to Florence, Cologne, Porto,
Toulouse, Alicante, Palma Mallorca, Bordeaux, Ibiza and Reykjavik with flybe
in particular, show there are exciting times ahead for Birmingham Airport"
During March significant growth was achieved
on scheduled flights to destinations such as -
Fuerteventura 95.3%, Stuttgart 78.6%, Arrecife 75.3%,
Chambery 59.7%, Guernsey 43.0% Hannover 40.8%,
Milan 39.4%, Istanbul 33.1%, Dublin 16.9%,
Frankfurt 12.9% Paris CDG 8.8% and Dubai 6.5%
Charter traffic which experience growth included -
Turkey 273.6% and Barbados 83.0%
Scheduled traffic accounted for 89.1% of the total
passenger traffic in March whilst charter passengers
made up the remaining 10.9%
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| Wednesday 16 April 2014 |