The Scotsman

Airport celebrates its busiest April ever with the launch of new routes

- By LUCINDA CAMERON

Edinburgh Airport has celebrated its busiest ever April with new routes helping drive the increase in passenger numbers.

In total 1,206,540 passengers passed through the airport last month, up 5.7 per cent on the same month in 2017.

The internatio­nal market grew 7.2 per cent year on year due to 21 new routes which have launched since last April, while the domestic market grew by 3.1 per cent.

Gordon Dewar, Edinburgh Airport chief executive, said: “It’s great to see growth in both our domestic and internatio­n- 0 1,206,504 passengers used Edinburgh airport in April al markets, especially after a flat month in March due to the Beast from the East, and this has resulted in our busiest April ever. We’re flying to more destinatio­ns than ever before with 22 new routes launching since this time last year, 21 of those to internatio­nal destinatio­ns which is expanding our reach and opening Scotland to even more of the world.

“We’ve recently announced two fantastic additions in Beijing with Hainan and Dubai with Emirates and they will attract even more tourists and expand business opportunit­ies, as will our direct flight to Washington with United which comes online later this month – these are all immensely exciting for the capital and Scotland.” New routes include flights to Carcassonn­e, Corfu, Prague and Tenerife and routes to Providence and Stewart in the USA.

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