Manchester Airport predicts 'strong' summer as passenger numbers return to near pre-pandemic levels
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester Airport says it is set for a strong summer as passenger numbers return to near pre-pandemic levels and holidaymakers increasingly look to far flung destinations.
Figures for February this year show 1.7 million passengers travelled through the airport last month, which is half a million more than February of last year.
The figure equates to 93 per cent of the total number of passenger in February 2019, pre-Covid. Low-cost airlines, said the airport, had a particularly strong month, with 865,000 holidaymakers taking budget flights last month just one per cent less than pre-pandemic levels.
Announcing the latest figures, bosses said the airport was edging 'ever closer' to pre-Covid levels of passengers. READ MORE: 'She was all our daughters': Community comes together to remember teen knocked down and killed as she walked to college Long-haul markets are also said to be recovering strongly, with 320,000 passengers during February equating top 92 per cent of pre-pandemic levels.
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