January 2006 Pax Figures
Birmingham International Airport's year got off to a flying start
with 564,702 people using the UK's fifth largest airport in January.
This was 5.9% up on the same month last year and the busiest January
on record for BIA.
Scheduled traffic overall was up by 8.5% during the month as more
people took advantage of the growing range of short and long haul
scheduled destinations available from Birmingham. Passenger growth
was seen in particular on flights to non-EU destinations where
passenger numbers were up 37.8%, on services to Asia which grew by
26.9%, on flights to the Irish Republic which increased by 20.2%, and
on Domestic operations which rose by 4.8% during the month.
Meanwhile, a number of specific scheduled destinations experienced
growth, including Geneva (+120%), Toulouse (+64.4%), Larnaca
(+34.9%), Gothenburg (+24.9%), Zurich (+23.8%), Amsterdam (+22.1%),
Copenhagen (+19.8%), Munich (+11.5%), Edinburgh (+10.2%), Düsseldorf
(+10.1%), Aberdeen (+9.7%), Lyon (+9.3%) and Brussels (+7.4%).
Although there was a fall of 3.4% in charter passenger numbers during
the month, growth was seen on flights to Egypt (+467.8%), Barbados
(+22.7%), Bulgaria (+18.6%), Malta (+16.9%), Cyprus (+13.6%), Tunisia
(+8.7%), and Spain (+5.8%).
Scheduled traffic accounted for 80.1% of the total traffic in January
whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 19.9%.