November 2013 passengers at Birmingham Airport‏

Birmingham Airport handled 588,102 passengers during November 2013 
- an increase of 3.4% on the previous year
     
Another good month - and another month that builds on a strong month
the previous year when the November 2012 passengers numbers were up
3.9% so that gives a 7.5% increase over two years

Emirates - up 10.7% - and Turkish - up 23.0% - both had another excellent
month despite the recent arrival of Air India in the Asian market for onward
connecting passengers. Overall traffic in this market increased by 22.3%

This was also the first full month of the winter schedules which has seen
capacity increases on a number of routes and the arrival of Germanwings who
have taken over the services to Berlin Tegel and Hamburg from Lufthansa

As TUI/Thomson reported last week the IT/package tour market is currently
undergoing a revival after many years of decline and this was reflected in a
8.1% increase in the November 2013 IT passengers also helped by the new
Freebird Airlines service to Antalya

During November significant growth was achieved
on scheduled flights to destinations such as -
Bergamo 77.6%, Stuttgart 45.3%, Waterford 36.9%,
Milan Malpensa 27.0%, Istanbul 23.0%, Funchal 17.0%
Dublin 12.7%, Katowice 12.3% and Dubai 10.7% 

Charter traffic which experience growth included -
Barbados 192.3%, Turkey 120.8% and Portugal 106.3%
   
Scheduled traffic accounted for 89.2% of the total passenger traffic
in November whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 10.8%

Monday 16 December 2013

October 2013 passengers at Birmingham Airport‏‏

Birmingham Airport handled 830,370 passengers during October 2013 
- an increase of 4.3% on the previous year
    
Yet another excellent month driven by a continued growth in long haul passengers
- traffic to Asia was up 25.5% following the recent launch of the new services by
Air Blue to Islamabad and Lahore and Air India to Amritsar and Delhi

Emirates, who have many onward connecting services to India and East Asia,
achieved an increase of 10.2% despite the added competition in this market
while Turkish Airlines who also carry a lot of onward connecting passengers
reported a further 19.2% increase on their service to Istanbul

The month also saw the start of the winter schedules with capacity increases
on a number of routes and the arrival of Germanwings who have taken over
the services from Berlin Tegel and Hamburg from Lufthansa
  
During October significant growth was achieved
on scheduled flights to destinations such as -
Islamabad 40.6%, Waterford 31.1%, Stuttgart 21.1%,
Istanbul 19.2%, Bodrum 16.9%, Heraklion 15.4%,
Rome 14.5%, Dublin 11.1% and Dubai 10.2%
 
Charter traffic which experience growth included -
Malta 104.1%, Tunisia 52.7% and Turkey 18.7%
  
Scheduled traffic accounted for 83.3% of the total passenger traffic
in October whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 16.7%

  

Friday 15 November 2013