Birmingham Airport reaches important passenger milestone
THE volume of passengers using Birmingham Airport has seen the hub notch up an important milestone.
May saw more than one million passengers head through the terminal – the earliest point in the year that the airport has reached such an amount.
In total 1,005,861 people travelled through the airport last month, up 11.1% compared to the same month last year. This means the airport has now celebrated 15 consecutive months of record breaking growth.
It also helps to offset the disappointment surrounding the airport following the sudden withdrawal of this summer’s Chinese charter flights.
The airport said long-haul routes continued to experience the greatest rise in demand, with 16.5% passenger growth compared to the same month last year. Meanwhile, short-haul routes saw a 10.5% growth rate year-on-year.
Paul Kehoe, CEO at Birmingham Airport, said: “To be hitting the one million passenger mark in May is fantastic news for the airport. It shows us that the new airlines and routes we have recently introduced are proving popular with our passengers.
“We are now entering the busy summer season and so we hope that these consecutive record breaking figures will continue going forward.”
Scheduled traffic accounted for 89% of the total passenger volume last month with charter traffic making up the remaining 11%.
Scheduled traffic saw an increase of 21.6%, with significant year-on-year passenger growth to Heraklion (+122.3%), Reykjavik (+116.4%) and Dubrovnik (+92.1%).
Charter destinations with significant growth were Fuerteventura (+95.2%), Gran Canaria (+89.4%) and Lanzarote (+78.4%).
