News: Fewer people take Birmingham flights in February
Flights > News > # 187 (10/03/2005)
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A First Choice Boeing 757 taxis at Birmingham Airport. The Midlands hub has seen a reduction in capacity on charter flights, together with the loss of some no frills traffic to rivals Coventry and East Midlands. |
Birmingham International Airport (BHX) handled 570,179 passengers in February. Some of this decrease could be attributed to the fact that 2004 was a leap year. Taking this factor out of consideration, the airport is showing growth of 1.8%, rather than a decline of the same amount.
Although there was an overall reduction of 5.4% in the number of scheduled passengers during February, growth was achieved on scheduled services to the Indian sub-continent, which saw an increase of 2.4% and on domestic routes, which grew overall by 1.8%.
Other scheduled routes which saw a rise in traffic over the month were;
Charter traffic was down by 3.9% overall compared with February 2004. However, growth was achieved on services to
Scheduled traffic accounted for 80% of the total February figure while charter passengers made up the remaining 20%.
Despite the current reductions in flight traffic, the airport's management is looking forward to a busy Summer 2005 season. New flights from bmibaby, flybe, Monarch Scheduled and MyTravelLite should all demonstrate significant growth in the no frills market. Meanwhile, long haul scheduled traffic should also grow, as Air
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