Passengers down 0.1% in January
12.02.08
Birmingham Airport had 576,130 passengers last month, with 476,507 scheduled passengers and 99,623 charter passengers. This represented a slight fall - down 0.1% - on the same month last year.
Passengers on Non EU routes were up 6.3% and EU routes up 3.3%, but domestic passengers fell. Irish routes were up 9.5% and routes to the Channel Isles were up 11.9%. Scheduled routes experiencing growth included: Bratislava (+955.4%), Murcia (+335%), Barcelona (+179.5%), Geneva (+94.2%), Arrecife (+88.1%), Paphos (+87.6%) and Glasgow (+13.6%).
Joe Kelly, Managing Director of Birmingham Airport said: ‘January saw a slight decrease in passengers over the previous year, which reflects a downturn in leisure travel. However, we received some fantastic news, with Ryanair announcing a base here at Birmingham and the introduction of 20 new routes commencing from April. This is excellent news for passengers, the airport and the region.’
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