The airport reached a milestone in March with over 6 million passengers handled in a 12-month period for the first time.
CAA provisional stats show the figure as 6,038,763, an increase of 5.7% over the same period last year. The passenger increase was achieved with 10% fewer flights in the 12 months in question.
As for March, the airport saw over 506,000 passengers, up 12% on March 2007.
Regarding the proposed expansion of the airport, the Bristol Evening Post carried a story today concerning a young man who has started a web site in support of expansion. His name is the same as the username of an occasional poster to this thread. Don't know if it is the same person. Perhaps he will let us know if it is.
Good luck to his venture, anyway. Local newspaper and television polls in Bristol in the past have shown a significant majority of 'ordinary people' (as opposed to the publicity-hungry activists who are anti airport) to be in favour of expansion - around 70%. It will be useful to have a focus to counteract the views of the SBAE and its fellow travellers.
Many thanks, bristolflyer.
Your description does make the walkway sound much less a terminal extension than the way it was described in the web site I mentioned. No doubt there will still be much argument between the ‘opposing sides’ about its planning status though.