A total of 1,366,026 people passed through Edinburgh Airport last month making it the busiest September on record at Scotland’s busiest airport. The numbers are 5.8% up on the same month last year with new routes continuing to perform well and airlines flying bigger and fuller aircraft. It follows another record month in August when 1,473,132 passengers passed through the terminal, an increase of 4.9% on last year and the second busiest month ever at the airport. The busiest month on record was July 2018 when the 1.5 million passenger barrier was broken for the first time by a Scottish airport. Domestic market was ahead of last year (+2.0%) with Flybe and Loganair flying fuller planes. The international market recorded a 7.8% YoY growth due to 21 new routes launched since last September.
Popular destinations (among others) in September were:
- Malaga, Alicante, Girona and Ibiza
- Greece: Crete, Rhodes, Athens and Corfu
- Other holiday destinations: Madeira, Faro and Dalaman
- City destinations: Florence, Lisbon, Rome and Barcelona
- Central and Eastern Europe: Gdansk, Wroclaw, Poznan, Kaunas, Budapest and Bratislava