Drop in passengers at Norwich Airport
14.10.08
Norwich Airport passenger numbers have dropped by more than 11 percent in the past year, the Evening News reports. Air travel across the UK is declining, with an average drop in customers of 4.5 percent, but out of all the regional airports Norwich saw the biggest drop, with 11.4 percent fewer passengers last month, than last year.
The survey, carried out by a national Sunday newspaper, revealed how airline failures, harder economic times and a dismal airport experience have caused a sharp downturn in the number of people flying. The airport also faces a threat from a major expansion at its rival Stansted, which could see more than 20,000 extra flights from the Essex airport after it was given permission to expand last week
Flybe's chief operating officer Mike Rutter said last month that his company had found it tougher than anticipated to attract passengers to Norwich because of the ‘shadow of Stansted’ and it will now get worse.
However Richard Jenner, managing director of the airport, said passenger numbers were in line with projections. He told the newspaper: ‘Our passenger numbers are pretty much what we expected. The number of passengers using the airport has gone down and this is the affect of what happened last year when some flights were cut.'
‘Last year we reported there were about 680,000 passengers and we predicted that would drop to about 620,000 which is more or less what the figures are now.’
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