Manchester Airport sees 9.9% passenger increase for September
At Manchester, 2,671,199 passengers travelled through the airport last month, which respresented an increase of 9.9% on September 2015.
This means that Manchester's 12 month rolling total now stands at 24,846,962 passengers.
Numbers were equally impressive across the airport’s short haul and long haul network.
Key late summer short haul markets like Spain (+20.7%), the Canary Islands (+24.5%) and Cyprus (+12.7%) all continued to grow well, while long haul traffic was also strong across business and leisure destinations – including a 9.3% growth to the USA.
The influx of students coming in to universities across the north was also a driver of September’s growth.