Passengers down 11.4%
14.10.08
The number of passengers using Norwich Airport has dropped by 11.4 percent in the last year, the Evening News reports. Air travel across the UK has declined, with an average drop in passengers of 4.5 percent, but out of all the regional airports Norwich saw the biggest drop last month compared to a year earlier.
A survey, carried out by a national newspaper, revealed how airline failures, a weakening economy and a dismal airport experience has caused a sharp downturn in the number of people flying.
However Richard Jenner, managing director of Norwich Airport, said passenger numbers were in line with their projections. He told the newspaper: ‘Our passenger numbers are pretty much what we expected. The number of passengers using the airport has gone down and this is the affect of what happened last year when some flights were cut.'
‘Last year there were about 680,000 passengers and we predicted that this would drop to about 620,000 this year, which is more or less what the figures are now.’
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