Passenger figures
CAA stats show that in June the airport saw 653,151 passengers through its terminal. This is a rise of 3.4% on June 2013 and is the best ever June beating June 2013.
In fact, last summer and this summer are turning out to be record breakers: in 2013 the months from May through to October were all the best ever for those months and this year April, May and June have seen the best ever totals for those months.
The significant thing about June's figures is that they take the rolling 12-month total to 6,234,596 (a rise of 4.1% on a year ago) which is above the airport's best ever calendar year of 2008 when 6,228,656 terminal passengers were handled.
Recent winters have been down on a few years ago but last winter did suggest some movement north.
The other important point is that in recent years annual passenger growth has been achieved against falling air transport movements each year. In June the 3.4% growth came despite a fall in atms of 2.7%.
So to have achieved the growth overall occupancy rate must have improved (yet again) but there will come a time when the only way to sustain growth will be an increase in seats meaning larger aircraft or more flights or both.
BRS has been extremely consistent in its annual growth rate. In the past 40 years only 1985, 1990, 1996 and 2009 saw drops in passenger numbers against the previous year.
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The LH code share does seem to have had a positive effect on loads in June.
FRA was up 46% and MUC was up 49% on June 2013. Even HAM with no LH code share saw a rise of 16%. Frequencies were broadly the same in 2013 and 2014.