Bumper August for Manchester Airport passenger numbers

Passenger numbers at Manchester Airport were up 7% in August on the year before, as 2.3 million passed through the gates.

It marks the fifteenth consecutive month of year-on-year growth for the airport, as increased international traffic pushed visitor numbers up.

New routes, including easyJet’s service to Moscow and Norwegian’s service to Stavanger, have helped to fuel the growth.

Ken O’Toole, Chief Commercial Officer for MAG, owners of Manchester Airport, said: “We’ve had our best summer in over five years and we are delighted to see passenger numbers continuing to rise at Manchester. We have put our focus on attracting a multitude of new routes as well as increasing services on the ever popular destinations.

“We have reaped the rewards from our successful ‘Fly Manchester’ campaign since its launch in February and we are now into our fourth phase which has seen us move into Staffordshire and West Midlands to remind our larger catchment area of our ever growing services.”

Manchester’s winter programme is also looking strong with many airlines announcing new winter sun destinations. These include Thomas Cook Airlines adding three new long haul services to St Lucia, Antigua and Barbados from November, making Manchester the only airport outside of London to fly to St Lucia this winter.

Emirates are also temporarily increasing capacity and for ten days will run another Airbus A380 on two of its three daily services to Dubai from Manchester Airport.

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