Birmingham Airport have announced their passenger figures for November.
During November, Birmingham International Airport handled 567,524 travellers through its two terminals, including 486,570 scheduled passengers and 80,954 charter passengers.
Paul Kehoe, Birmingham Airport’s Chief Executive Officer, commented: “It remains the case that the winter season will be particularly tough for the aviation industry, despite indications that confidence is slowly returning to the market. November’s 8.6% downturn is indicative of the difficult conditions facing the industry as a whole, however the airport team continues to discuss a number of possibilities with new airlines.
“During November we welcomed the start of Aer Olympic’s new weekly service to northern Iraq, offering weekly flights to the cities of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. It is the first time that Birmingham Airport has had direct links to Iraq and is offering a valuable service to the Midlands’ Iraqi and Kurdish community, who no longer face a battle up and down congested motorways to fly from airports outside of the Region.”
During November significant growth was achieved on scheduled flights to destinations such as Larnaca, Krakow, Rzeszow and Arrecife – where there is now considerably more capacity than the same month last year. Other routes proving popular include Hanover (+54.1%), Tenerife (+50.7%), Biarritz (+35.5%), Gerona (+30.8%), Lyon (+20.7%), Hamburg (+19.5%), Islamabad (+18.9%), Cork (+16.3%), Dundee (+10.7%), Belfast City (+10.3%), Inverness (+8.6%), Ashkhabad (+8.3%), Zurich (+7.1%), Dubai (+6.4%), Guernsey (+5.3%), Kaunas (+4.8%), Isle of Man (+3.9%) and Frankfurt (+2.3%).
Charter traffic which experienced growth included Barbados (+31.6%), Madeira (+24.8%), Greece (+17.2%), Egypt (+14.2%) and Cape Verde Islands (+13.9%).
Scheduled traffic accounted for 85.7% of the total passenger traffic in November whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 14.3%.
