Birmingham Airport passenger numbers hit new record
Birmingham Airport has celebrated another record month with February passenger figures up 9.4 per cent on the year.
It was the 12th month in a row of record numbers of people flying to and from thew airport.
A total of 690,347 passengers travelled through the airport last month, up 59,000 on the same month in 2015.
Long-haul destinations are continuing to prove extremely popular with growth up by more than 19 per cent compared to February last year.
Short-haul destinations were also up 7.9 per cent.
Chief executive Paul Kehoe said: "It's great to see our record breaking months continue, a whole year of outstanding passenger figures is something that will go down in the airport's history.
"The next few weeks will see a rapid expansion to the selection of airlines flying from Birmingham Airport as we introduce Qatar, CSA, Iberia and Blue Air as well as the magnificent Emirates Airbus A380 aircraft.
"These new airlines, along with increasing frequencies from our established carriers, will attract a lot more people to our airport and so we expect our passenger figures to remain strong going forward."
Scheduled traffic in February accounted for almost 91 per cent of the total with charter passengers making up the remaining nine per cent.
Scheduled traffic overall grew by a healthy 11.2per cent with significant year-on-year passenger growth to Rome (up 127 per cent), Milan (up 71 per cent) and Malaga (up 65 per cent).
Charter traffic experienced a 5.9 per cent drop in passenger numbers compared to the same month last year.
