Birmingham Airport break 1m passenger mark
08.08.08
Birmingham Airport had 1,036,135 passengers during July, the highest July on record and the first time the airport has broken the million passenger barrier in 2008. During the month, 718,958 scheduled passengers and 317,177 charter passengers used the airport’s two terminals, an increase of 7.5% over the previous year.
The airport achieved another record last month as it exceeded the 9.5m passenger mark for first time in a rolling 12 month period. From the 1st August 2007 to the 31st July 2008 the Airport has had a total of 9,530,628 passengers, an increase of 4.3% over the previous 12 months total.
Joe Kelly, Acting Managing Director of Birmingham International Airport, said, ‘Biarritz, Bratislava, Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Olbia, Perpignan, Stockholm and Trapani were all new routes that started from the airport in July, helping to reach these record numbers. Looking forward to the rest of the year we are delighted that Turkish Airlines has announced a new service to Istanbul starting in December, and with Ryanair adding an extra ten routes from October it should be a busy second half of the year as well.’
In July, growth was achieved on Non EU routes of 7.3% and EU of 20.6%. The Irish Republic saw an increase of 12.9%. Scheduled routes that experienced growth in July included: Bratislava (+2404%), Larnaca (+114.6%), Inverness (+107.2%), Marseille (+75.4%), Hamburg (+40%), Warsaw (+38.3%), Milan (+33.9%) and Krakow (+32.2%). Charter routes which experienced growth were Egypt (+88%), Morocco (+34.1%), Italy (+15.2%), Croatia (+13.2%), Dominican Republic (+12.9%) and Turkey (+6.1%).
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