News: New record for Birmingham flights
Flights > News > # 528 (10/08/2005)
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An Air France flight on approach to Birmingham international airport. |
Birmingham International Airport has recorded its busiest month ever, with some 1,023,697 travelling through the Airport in July, an increase of 7.8% over 2004. This is the first time that the Airport has broken through the million passenger milestone in a July. The signs are good for even greater record passenger levels in the peak month of August.
Richard Heard, Birmingham International Airport's Managing Director commented:
"These record passenger levels reflect the increasing desire of people in the Midlands to travel - and to do that from their regional airport. We have been delighted to launch a wide range of new services this year to places far and wide. We now have flights to some 126 destinations across the world direct, and many more through connections at global hubs such as New York and Dubai.
A major expansion to the Terminal 1 departure lounge is already underway, along with an expansion of the Immigration and Baggage Hall. In Terminal 2, we have just started a project to add further check in desks and baggage systems improvements."
Scheduled traffic grew by 24.2% overall with passenger numbers increasing particularly rapidly non-EU flights, which saw growth of over 50%.
Scheduled destinations which saw an increase in passenger traffic during July included Prague (+108%), Larnaca (+98.3%), Milan (+92.6%), Helsinki (+65.6%), Edinburgh (+26.3%), Copenhagen (+24.3%), Amsterdam (+15.3%), and Zurich (+12.4%).
Charter passengers fell by 13.5% overall, reflecting a wider trend across the charter market. Despite the overall fall in charter traffic, a number of countries did experience growth in passenger numbers on flights from Birmingham, including Bulgaria (+78.3%), Mexico (+50.1%) Croatia (+30.6%), Malta (+20.7%) Cyprus (+17.5%) and Turkey (+13.4%).
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