RECORD-BREAKING MARCH FOR BIA
Birmingham International Airport (BIA) handled 730,307 passengers during March, including 595,306 scheduled passengers and 135,001 charter passengers spread across the two passenger terminals; smashing the previous highest figure recorded for the month of March and an 8.4% increase over the previous year.
These figures represent even more good news for the Airport as it also handled record numbers in February with more than 635,000.
Peter Vella, Business Development Director at Birmingham International Airport, said: “It is the second straight month of record-breaking passenger figures for the Airport, which is obviously great news as we strive to break the 10 million passenger barrier this year. We are delighted to have seen flybe launch new routes to Inverness and Newquay in March, which once again increases the choice available to passengers flying from their local Airport. ”
In March, growth was achieved on non-EU routes of 9.7%, EU of 10.8% and domestic of 0.9%. The Irish Republic saw an increase of 16.6%.
Scheduled routes that experienced growth in January includes: Bratislava (+394.7%), Madrid (+394.1%), Barcelona (+189.1%), Geneva (+158%), Berne (+80.3%), Faro (+76.6%), Murcia (+72.4%), Chambery (+66.2%), Palma (+45.8%), Lyon (+42.5%), Nice (+39.6%), Arrecife (+25.7%), Almeria (+24.2%), Brest (+18.9%), Glasgow (+17.9%), Mahon (+16.3%), Zurich (+13%), Alicante (+12.4%), Paphos (+12%) and Malta (+10.8%).
Charter traffic which experienced growth were Bulgaria (+145%), Cyprus (+40.3%), Italy (+32.9%), Austria (+25.9%), France (+24.6%), Egypt (+14.8%), Switzerland (+13.7%), the Canary Islands (+13.4%) and Spain (+3.5%).
Scheduled traffic accounted for 81.5% of the total passenger traffic in March whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 18.5%.
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