8 mppa in 2017?
The BRS CEO, Robert Sinclair, said this week that the airport is expected to handle more than 8 million passengers in 2017. 2016 is on track to finish in the region of 7.5 million, which is an increase of nearly 1.2 million in the past two years.
Currently the only signification addition for summer 2017 over the summer just ended appears to be another based easyJet aircraft (no 14), although Ryanair’s 25% winter increase and new winter routes from easyJet mean that January-March 2017 ought to be busier than the same period in 2016.
Nevertheless, another half a million passengers for 2017 means that something more will be needed.
It's to be hoped that the greatly expanded security search zone recently opened and the new much larger immigration area due to be in place in the next few months will ease the queuing problems that were evident at peak times this summer.