Belfast City Airport passengers up 8.3%
09.10.09
Belfast City Airport bucked the trend at most UK airports by posting a rise in passenger numbers in August. 240,834 passengers passed through its terminal during August, up 8.3% compared with the same month a year ago, according to the latest figures published by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Whilst Belfast International saw a 15.3% decrease in passenger numbers in August and a 15.5% drop was reported by City of Derry Airport, Belfast City recorded the largest percentage increase among UK airports carrying one million passengers or more a year. The CAA figures also showed that for the year to August the City Airport carried 2.5 million passengers, unchanged on the level of passenger traffic for the same period a year earlier. Over the same time Belfast International’s numbers were down 11.1% to 4.7 million.
The statistics showed that City Airport’s passenger numbers had been achieved despite a slight drop in flights from August 2008 and a 9.1% decline in flights for the year.
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