CAA stats for 2005 now published.
BRS is the 9th largest UK airport in terms of pax handled with 5,199000, a whisker ahead of NCL’s 5,187000. In eighth place is EDI with 8,449000 so there is some way to go to get into the UEFA Cup positions.
In the past five years BRS has increased its pax throughput by 144.7% and is beaten only by PIK in the top twenty UK airports, which has increased its numbers by 165.8%, rising from 905,000 to 2,405000 during the same period.
Most heavily used routes out of BRS in 2005 were EDI (329,000), GLA (299,000), Belfast airports combined (295,000 with 233,000 at BFS and 62,000 at BHD), DUB (288,000), AMS (264,000), NCL (253,000), AGP (230,000) and ALC (201,000).
The CO EWR route carried 55,254 pax in 2005, and bears an interesting comparison with the CO BFS-EWR that commenced a week after the BRS route towards the end of May and carried 56,747 pax.