Busiest Ever May At Edinburgh Airport

Over one million passengers travelled through Edinburgh Airport last month making it the busiest their May on record.

The hub saw an increase of 9.3 percent on the previous year - mostly due to more international visitors.

More than 570,000 international passengers travelled through the terminal in May, an increase of almost 56,000 on the same period last month, while domestic passenger figures increased by 7.4% with 450,928 journeys
through the airport. 

Bosses say the rise is because of new routes and more frequent flights to London.

Gordon Dewar, Chief Executive of Edinburgh Airport, said the results are "phenomenal" and "a sure sign of a busy summer season."

He said: “Increased capacity on routes to Paris, Basel, Lisbon and Madrid with easyJet, as well as Qatar Airways increasing their Doha service to daily at the beginning of May and the launch of the new American Airlines service to New York JFK have all meant more passengers through our doors.

“We know that over the last few months passengers have had to queue for longer than we’d like to get through security and in other parts of the terminal building. This isn’t what we want and we’re working hard to resolve this as quickly as possible.