Prestwick Airport passengers down 11%
04.05.11
Prestwick Airport suffered an 11% annual fall in passengers in the year to the end of March. The plunge was revealed in a regulatory announcement by Infratil, the owner of the Scottish airport, which blamed the drop on Ryanair’s reduction of UK domestic and Irish routes and services. In the year to the end of March, Ryanair cut back its services from Prestwick to both Stansted and Belfast City airports, and it also withdrew a number of routes completely, including those to Charleroi in Belgium, Torp in Norway, Gothenburg, Shannon, Milan and Budapest.
Infratil’s statement revealed that passenger numbers at Prestwick tumbled to 1.52 million in the 12-month period, compared with 1.71 million, an 11% decline. A spokesman for Prestwick Airport said: ‘Our strong summer 2010 performance was offset by a weak winter 2010-11 schedule.’ He added that the airport remained confident about its future, and that freight volumes had continued to perform strongly. Freight figures for March reveal the seventh consecutive month of year-on-year growth, with freight tonnage up 32% for the month and 5% for the year.
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