Record-breaking July for Birmingham Airport

The month of July saw a number of records broken at Birmingham Airport as over 1.03 million people passed through the gateway – more than in the same month of any previous year.

In a traffic increase of 7.5 per cent on 2007, some 718,958 scheduled passengers and 317,177 charter travellers used the West Midlands hub in July.

Birmingham Airport also exceeded the 9.5 million passenger mark for the first time in a rolling 12-month period for the year from August 1st 2007 to July 31st this year.

The 9.53 million fliers who travelled through the airport represented a 4.3 per cent increase on the previous 12-month total.

Joe Kelly, acting managing director of Birmingham Airport, said that July followed February, March, April and May in the list of record-breaking months for the gateway.

A number of new routes were launched from the airport last month, to destinations including Bratislava, Gdansk, Perpignan and Stockholm.

Passenger numbers will be further boosted in December this year when Turkish Airlines launches a new flight from Birmingham Airport to Istanbul.

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