New figures show that Birmingham Airport handled a record-breaking number of passengers last month.
A total of 730,307 people passed through the airport’s gates in March, including 595,306 scheduled travellers and 135,001 charter passengers.
That figure amounts to an 8.4 per cent increase when compared with the same month in 2007 and comes on the heels of an equally successful February, when a record breaking 635,000 people used the airport.
Destinations within the EU were among the most popular – enjoying passenger growth of 10.8 per cent – while non-EU international routes spiked by 9.7 per cent and domestic flights were up 0.9 per cent.
Peter Vella, business development director at the Midlands hub, commented: “It is the second straight month of record-breaking passenger figures for the airport, which is obviously great news as we strive to break the ten million passenger barrier this year.”
He added that customers flying out of Birmingham have an increasingly diverse range of destinations to choose from, with flybe last month adding Inverness and Newquay to its itinerary.
