Manchester Airport passengers down 4.5%
17.09.08
Manchester Airport has seen a dramatic fall in passengers as the aviation industry is plunged into its 'deepest crisis' since the 1970s, the Manchester Evening News reports. New figures show there has been a fall in the number of flights through British airspace for the first time since the slump that followed the 9/11 terror attacks, with the number of passengers at Manchester Airport down 112,852 in August compared with last year, a drop of 4.54 percent, according to the figures from National Air Traffic Services (NATS).
The NATS figures also show that flights across northern England, which are handled by air traffic controllers in Manchester, were 3,344 down in July on the previous year, a drop of 5.9 percent. In August, they were down 4,474 on 2007, a drop of 7.9 percent.
Ian Hall, director of operations at NATS said: ‘The aviation industry has always been a barometer of the wider economy. It should not come as any surprise to see a slight slowdown, particularly since the airlines have signalled some cutbacks to services.’
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