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Edinburgh Airport reports record passenger numbers

Edinburgh Airport reports record passenger numbers Edinburgh Airport has reported it's highest ever passenger figures during June after 859,000 people used the Scottish hub.

The Evening News reports that this represents a 1.5 per cent increase on figures recorded for the same time period during 2007.

This trend is partially being attributed to a bigger take-up of flights to summer-sun destinations such as Alicante in Spain.

Many Scottish travellers are also using the facility increasingly to travel to holidays in France, Italy and even further afield.

Airport authority BAA, which owns Edinburgh Airport, reported a 7.7 per cent rise in traffic across seven of its UK hubs.

Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow airports cumulatively handled 11.6 million travellers during March which represented a 3.8 per cent increase on traffic on previous figures.

However, Gatwick reported the greatest growth for the Easter period with 35 million passengers using the facility which is the first time it has topped 32 million since September 2001.

Equally, passenger numbers at Heathrow were up by 5.2 per cent on figures for last year while numbers were up 9.1 per cent at London Stansted Airport.

The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has indicated that this is part of a wider trend of people being undeterred by the credit crunch when booking a holiday.

Despite the considerable strength of the euro against the pound, British holidaymakers are also still happy to choose destinations in the Eurozone.


Airport News posted on 14 July 2008

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