LBA saw yet another creditable 4.3% increase in passenger numbers for the month of September 2011. A total of 328,380 passengers passed through the terminal.
The total year rolling figure now stands at 2,954,941 which now means that LBA is only 45,059 away from hitting the 3 million passenger mark for the first time in its 80 years of operation.
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On another note
It is also worth pointing out that the airport celebrated it's 80th Anniversary this week and saw a few flypast's take place on Monday of 2x Belgium F16's, and RAF Tucano, Tornado GR4 and VC-10.
Yesterday afternoon also saw the Battle of Britain Memorial flight Lancaster-Bomber and a RAF Eurofighter-Typhoon F.2 make a visit.