www.Parctel.com: Birmingham International Airport (BIA) handled 673,515 passengers during March, including 549,575 scheduled passengers and 123,940 charter passengers spread across the two passenger terminals; a decrease of 0.2% over the previous year.
John Morris, Head of Corporate and Community Affairs said: “March reflected a slight decrease in passenger figures here at Birmingham International Airport. With the cancellation of some of the BA Connect flights this impacted on the figures. Following Flybe’s acquisition of BA Connect and having now moved their operation to Terminal 2 we are looking forward to a positive summer with flybe and all of our airlines.”
In March, growth was achieved on Non EU of 14.3% and the Irish Republic 0.9%. Long Haul routes continue their positive trend with an increase of 16.7% on Asia traffic and +4.6% on Transatlantic flights.