RECORD-BREAKING FEBRUARY
Birmingham International Airport (BIA) handled 635,052 passengers during February, including 527,799 scheduled passengers and 107,253 charter passengers spread across the two passenger terminals; smashing the previous highest figure recorded for the month of February and a 9.2% increase over the previous year.
Joe Kelly, Acting Managing Director of Birmingham International Airport said:
“It was a record-breaking February for the Airport, which is great news. We are delighted to have seen bmibaby launch its new route to Krakow in Poland recently, which once again increases the choice available to passengers flying from their local Airport. ”
In February, growth was achieved on Non EU routes of 10.3%, EU of 15.4% and domestic of 3.9%. The Irish Republic saw an increase of 23.1%, while Services to Asia saw an increase of 1.5%.
Scheduled routes that experienced growth in January includes: Bratislava (+567.6%), Murcia (+229%), Faro (+127.2%), Geneva (+124.2%), Arrecife (+79%), Palma (+63%), Paphos (+54.1%), Nice (+42.9%), Chambery (+30%), Copenhagen (+28.1%), Glasgow (+26.3%), Dusseldorf (+23.9%), Inverness (+19.2%), Zurich (+18.3%), Munich (+15.5%) and Madrid (+15.2%).
Charter traffic which experienced growth were Bulgaria (+78.7%), Finland (+34%), Egypt (+22.2%), Canary Isles (+9.1%), France (+6.8%) and Austria (+5%).
Scheduled traffic accounted for 83.1% of the total passenger traffic in February whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 16.9%.
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