Further passenger growth for Birmingham Airport

Birmingham Airport has completed another month of record passenger figures.

Figures for June show more than 1.3m passengers travelled through the terminal – a 16.4% increase compared to the same month last year.

In total 1,301,962 passengers flew through Birmingham – 183,000 more than the same month in 2016.

Short haul services saw a very significant rate of growth at 17.8% whereas long haul services saw a smaller 2.7% increase.

David Winstanley, Chief Operating Officer at Birmingham Airport, said: “June was our twenty eighth consecutive month of record breaking growth. It’s also the third month this year in which we have seen over a million passengers. These are both fantastic achievements and show how Birmingham Airport’s popularity is rapidly growing.

“We are now fully into the busy summer season and so we expect figures for the next few months to remain very healthy.”

Scheduled traffic accounted for 88% of the total, with charter passengers making up the remaining 12%.

Scheduled traffic grew overall by 18.7%, with significant year-on-year growth to Sofia (+214.6%), Lisbon (+177.4%), Nantes (+146.6%), Rennes (+119.1%), Ibiza (+115.3%) and Burgas (+85.2 %).

Charter traffic saw expansion on services to Antalya (+114%), Montego Bay (+101.6%), Punta Cana (+96.2%), Malaga (+86%) and Munich (+48.9%).

The figures are the last to be overseen by CEO Paul Kehoe who steps down from his role this week after nine years in the hotseat.