JANUARY PASSENGER FIGURES
Birmingham International Airport (BIA) handled 576,130 passengers during January, including 476,507 scheduled passengers and 99,623 charter passengers spread across the two passenger terminals; a decrease of 0.1% over the previous year.
Joe Kelly, Acting Managing Director of Birmingham International Airport said: “January saw a slight decline in passenger figures of 0.1% over the previous year which reflects a downturn in leisure travel. However, we had some fantastic news in January with Ryanair announcing a base here at Birmingham and the introduction of 20 new routes from Ryanair, commencing onwards from April. This is excellent news for the airport and the region giving passengers the convenience and choice of flying from their local airport to these destinations.”
In January, growth was achieved on Non EU routes of 6.3% and EU of 3.3%. The Irish Republic saw an increase of 9.5%, and the Channel Isles an increase of 11.9%.
Scheduled routes that experienced growth in January includes: Bratislava (+955.4%), Murcia (+335%), Barcelona (+179.5%), Geneva (+94.2%), Arrecife (+88.1%), Paphos (+87.6%), Dusseldorf (+13.6%), Glasgow (+13.6%), Zurich (+13.5%), Almeria (+10.3%), Munich (+5.9%), Copenhagen (+5.8%), Gothenburg (+4.9%), Stuttgart (+4.8%) and Inverness (+2.5%).
Charter traffic which experienced growth were Egypt (+39.9%) and Bulgaria (+2.3%).
Scheduled traffic accounted for 82.7% of the total passenger traffic in January whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 17.3%.
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