Cardiff Airport sees 10 months of consecutive growth
Customers are taking advantage of an increased choice of destinations, more availability and better timings on key routes, plus airlines are offering greater value for money to fly from Cardiff.
The 10 months of growth from June 2015, averaging 34% per month, are due to strong load factors on scheduled airlines including Flybe, KLM and Vueling plus strong charter performances with Thomson and Thomas Cook.
Ten months of consecutive passenger growth:
Month 2015-16
% growth from previous year
Passenger numbers
June
12%
133,137
July
8%
139,805
August
10%
149,230
September
21%
150,477
October
62%
149,823
November
32%
65,040
December
56%
64,220
January
42%
59,715
February
68%
75,055
March
29%
78,413
Debra Barber, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Cardiff Airport, said: "It’s very encouraging to see yet another month of passenger growth following a successful winter and a busy ski season in particular. The summer season is just around the corner, with even more capacity available to popular holiday destinations like Spain and the Canaries, regular flights to the Algarve and a wealth of package options also available to destinations including Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece.
“We are also excited to launch the new service to Verona later this month (April 23rd) - there’s much more choice available for our customers this year and I look forward to seeing continuing growth in the coming months.
“We continue to work with new and incumbent airlines to offer more travel choices for our customers and we will continue to enhance the passenger journey with a new departures area opening officially in May.