Record May for Birmingham Airport
17.06.08
Birmingham Airport handled 877,232 passengers in May, including 625,770 scheduled passengers and 251,462 charter passengers. This passed its previous highest figure recorded for the month of May and was a 5.7% increase over the same month last year.
May was the fourth straight month of record-breaking figures at Birmingham, with February, March and April also seeing the Airport handling monthly bests. Joe Kelly, Managing Director at Birmingham Airport, said: ‘We have seen another record-breaking month, with May has been extremely busy after a number of new routes launched, offering passengers an increasing range of destinations.'
'New services starting in May included Marseille with Ryanair, Hurghada and Skiathos with Thomas Cook, Montego Bay and Punta Cana with Thomsonfly, Hamburg with Lufthansa, Dundee with Flybe / Loganair and Warsaw with bmibaby.‘
Growth was achieved on non-EU routes of 15.9% and EU of 10.8%, with the Irish Republic seeing an increase of 19.3% and the Channel Isles a rise of 15.7%. Scheduled routes that experienced the highest growth include: Bratislava (+902.7%), Dundee (+556.6%), Marseille (+366.7%), Rome (+162.7%), Inverness (+104.2%) and Bergamo (+100.0%).
Charter routes that experienced growth included Austria (+45.7%), Italy (+27.6%), Egypt (+23.7%), Turkey (+19.5%), Mexico (+13.5%), USA (+12.7%), Bulgaria (+3.1%) and Spain (+0.6%).
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