Birmingham International Airport handled 712,476 passengers during April including 598,712 scheduled passengers and 113,764 charter passengers spread across the two passenger terminals; smashing the previous highest figure recorded for the month of April and a 6.2% increase over the previous year.
It is the third straight month of record-breaking figures at Birmingham, with February and March also seeing the Airport handling monthly bests.
Joe Kelly, Acting Managing Director at Birmingham International Airport, said, "These figures represent even more good news for the Airport and we are delighted that it is yet another record-breaking month. With new routes launched to Bergamo with bmibaby, Newquay with flybe and Girona and Pisa with Ryanair during April, passengers travelling from their local airport continue to have an ever-increasing range of destinations to choose from."
In April, growth was achieved on non-EU routes of 5%, EU of 10.9% and domestic of 5.3%. The Irish Republic saw an increase of 17.6%.
Scheduled routes that experienced growth in April include: Geneva (+533.1%), Bratislava (+418.6%), Warsaw (+142%), Inverness (+106.1%), Chambery (+96%), Dusseldorf (+46.8%), Paphos (+37.4%), Stuttgart (+33.2%), Newcastle (+26.1%), Zurich (+22.3%), Copenhagen (+17.2%), Amsterdam (+11.5%), Gothenburg (+11%), Dubai (+9.9%), Edinburgh (+9.5%), Frankfurt (+9.2%), Prague (+9.1%), Glasgow (+5.6%), Larnaca (+5%), Milan (+3.5%), Hanover (+3.1%), Aberdeen (+2.4%) and Tenerife (+2.4%).
Charter traffic which experienced growth were Turkey (+19.3%), Canary Islands (+9.5%), Egypt (+8.1%) and Cyprus (+4.4%).
Scheduled traffic accounted for 84% of the total passenger traffic in April whilst charter passengers made up the remaining 16%.
