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Old 17th Mar 2017, 12:19
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MerchantVenturer

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I thought that was Royal Portbury Dock.

I was surprised the local authority approved the application to extend the south side car park which the airport said was necessary because of increased passenger numbers, with the first multi-story car park not yet built to assist with the increased numbers.

Airport consultative committee meeting minutes show that the first multi-storey car park which will be on the north side will see work on it commence this coming October with a completion date in spring 2018.

Incidentally, the airport published its own passenger figures for February this week. They show a rise of 11.4% over February 2016 (which was a leap year of course) meaning that the first two months of this year have seen over 100,000 more passengers than the corresponding period last year which itself was another record. Currently the 12-month rolling total is in excess of 7.7 million with over 8 million seemingly nailed on for the calendar year of 2017, unless some unexpected calamitous event occurs.

This summer is unlikely to see the sort of double digit percentage monthly rises of last summer. There will be one additional easyJet aircraft which will help the airline provide 6.7% more seats this year to a total of over 4.86 million. In 2016 two million business passengers used easyJet at BRS.

Increases in non-easyJet traffic are expected to be relatively modest, especially in terms of the additional 820,000 passengers seen in 2016. Nevertheless, these figures demonstrate the need for extra car parking and other facilities. It's likely that the airport will have gone from 6.33 mppa in 2014 to over 8 mppa in 2017.
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