East Midlands Airport has highest proportion of leisure travellers
30.09.07
East Midlands Airport has reacted positively to a recent survey from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that suggest the airport has the highest proportion of leisure passengers in the country.
In total some 4.7m passengers passed through the airport last year, with the CAA survey suggesting that leisure was the main reason for travel for 87.6 percent of them. This was higher than at other major airports such as Stansted and Gatwick, a fact that was welcomed by East Midland's managing director Penny Coates.
She said: 'The figures released by the CAA show that we have worked extremely hard to offer our customers a wide portfolio of destinations from their local airport. In 2007, we have had month-on-month passenger growth - the August bank holiday alone was one of the highest year-on-year increases in the country.'
Alicante was the most popular destination for leisure passengers, followed by Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Dublin and Rome. Business passengers accounted for 12.4 percent of all passengers at East Midlands Airport in 2006, with Glasgow being the most popular route for business passengers, followed by Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin and Amsterdam.
In 2006 some 2% of all UK passengers travelled through East Midlands Airport, and the airport is expected to enjoy another busy season this winter with the introduction of new routes including Goa, Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm.
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