Passengers down 18% at Bristol Airport
15.07.09
The number of people using Bristol Airport has dropped by 18 percent since the start of 2009, the Post reports In the first five months of the year, 1,933,635 people passed through the airport – a drop of more than 442,000 compared to the 2.37 million travellers during the same period in 2008. Passengers dropped 16.9 percent in May – the seventh month in a row passenger numbers have fallen.
Last month, the airport scaled back its expectations for passenger growth as it unveiled its £150 million expansion plans. It previously said passenger numbers would reach 10 million a year by 2016, but now believes the figure will be reached by 2020 and is delaying its expansion plans accordingly.
Bristol Airport was rocked by the departure of German national carrier Lufthansa, which stopped daily flights to Frankfurt on May 1. Previously held up as a model for the future of the airport, the airline blamed a lack of demand, which resulted in half full planes from November until the service was scrapped.
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