Bristol Airport passengers down 14.4%
20.05.09
Bristol Airport passengers were down 14.4% in April to 417,000.
Domestic traffic was 5.5% lower, primarily due to reduced flights from easyJet and Air Southwest. International traffic decreased 11.5%, predominantly due to capacity cuts by easyJet and Ryanair and charter traffic was 40.5% down due to the loss of XL Airways and a reduction in capacity by Thomson Group.
In the 12 months to the end of April passengers were down3.8% to 5.82m. Domestic passengers were down 10.0% to 1.1m, international passengers up 4.6% to 3.6m and charter passengers down 19.3% to 1.1m. During the month new charter operator, Kiss Flights announced that they will operate a summer service to Sharm el-Sheikh in addition to their previously announced Tenerife route.
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