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Published Date: 11 July 2009
EDINBURGH Airport is continuing to buck a UK-wide trend that has seen passenger numbers fall across the UK, new figures have shown.
Operator BAA said the Capital's airport had welcomed 871,268 passengers in June, a rise of 1.4 per cent on the previous year.

The figure contrasted with the rest of BAA's UK airports, where the number of travellers declined to its lowest level for
nine months.

The company said a total of 12.7 million passengers passed through its airports last month, a reduction of 5.9 per cent on the same period last year.

Bosses at Edinburgh Airport said passenger numbers had increased by more than two per cent in the past three months.

The terminal also recorded its busiest ever day in June, with 35,899 passengers on Friday 26.

Managing director Gordon Dewar said: "Despite the recession, we have successfully expanded our route network and attracted more passengers in the last three months than we did during the same period in 2008, before the onset of the downturn.

"With a major investment programme under way, and the promise of further route expansion in the months ahead, Edinburgh Airport is well positioned for the economic recovery."

BAA is currently embroiled in a battle against the Competition Commission's ruling earlier this year that it should sell either Edinburgh or Glasgow airport, as well as Gatwick and Stansted.





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  • Last Updated: 11 July 2009 11:01 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

alfonsa pedrosa,

embra 11/07/2009 13:20:34
This is good news,were they not going to close it not so long ago.
2

Pantaloon,

11/07/2009 14:04:02
I think its safe to say that Glasgow airport is for the sale.
3

Daft Old Git,

11/07/2009 14:07:25
#3
No there has never been a plan to close it. Where would the trams go and where would the planes land.
I think you may be very confused
4

Daft Old Git,

11/07/2009 14:07:56
#3
Now I'm confused. I meant #1
5

rpb,

11/07/2009 14:32:01
maybe #1 got confused when our splendid nationalist government decided to cancel the plan for a direct train link to Scotland's most successful airport.

They have no issue with glasgow air link, M74 extension (all value for money/environmentally sound I'm sure.)
Ironically both these vote winners will probably make it easier to travel to Glasgow airport...

6

foxbat3000,

Edinburgh 11/07/2009 17:33:16
Spending half a billion on such a scheme was nuts thank god that one was cancelled if the SNP had managed to cancel the trams too in retrospect we would all have cheered bus priority was a far better and cheaper option
7

Andrah,

Embrugh 11/07/2009 17:51:37
Looks like folks travelling to and from Edinburgh are not taking too much notice of the BBCs relentless one-eyed propaganda on climate change?
8

rpb,

11/07/2009 17:58:48
7. how much should a building scheme cost? 20p? £100m?

m74 extension will be the most expensive road in Europe; it is is totally unenvironmental to build yet another inner city motorway. Lets not forget the network already comprises m8,m77, elements of m74 & m73

What happens about more capital spend on m74 ? not a whimper from the snp.how much should this cost? no mention...

The politicising of scotland's transport
infrastructure is blatant by the current administration. The votes in the north are in the bag. All that's needed is the west of scotland.

Simple - give them every transport request going, and make the negative case for any investment in south east scotland. Further, blame investment in the south east as the reason that there are no north upgrades. If you read the northern press you will never hear Ewing moan about the cost of west of scotland projects, only south east scotland.

dual carriage way from edinburgh to m74? no chance.
borders railway? uneconomic
trams? too expensive
edinburgh air link? far too expensive?

just how much does it cost to subsidise strathclye rail/ road and one circular underground line?
again, no mention by snp/labour for that matter, no one asks...the tv media won't ask, obviously because they are both based in the area that has eaten scotland's transport budget since the 1960s.

Its a disgrace!




9

Hamish B,

Edinburgh 11/07/2009 18:19:04
#9 you are 100% right, the SNP are completed biased towards Glasgow over Edinburgh. The reason is probably because SNP are not the majority party here and they want to keep the weegies happy. Edinburgh is totally underfunded and if anything, we should have the most money spent to improve things here over anywhere else in Scotland-afterall we are the Capital city!!!
10

GraemeH,

Edinburgh 11/07/2009 20:31:07
#9 and #10 - last time I checked Edinburgh was getting a billion quid or so wasted on two hopeless projects in the vanity tram and the borders rail link as well as a planned £2billion plus on the next Forth Road Bridge.

It is not the fault of Glasgow and West Central Scotland (where twice as many people live as the east) that politicians have such flawed priorities.
11

rpb,

11/07/2009 21:08:37
11. I totally agree that its not the fault of the voters in the w of scotland. But why are the rest of us never told the cost of running the west of scotland's bloated public transport infrastrucure to the detriment of the rest of us?

Why did the west of scotland train infrastructure survive during Beeching when the rest of scotland was more or less shut down. It wasn't for economic reasons!

No wonder it costs so much to recreate what was wrongly shut down 40 years ago.

But you use the terms 'vanity' and 'hopeless' for east of scotland schemes.

that language is never used for dualling the empty a9, building more motorways in glasgow, subidising both a loss making subway and a train network second only to London in the UK.

Again, through politics we are told that projects in south east scotland are too expensive, vanity, hopeless...while there is no negativity around schemes in the west.

The funding allocation is totally flawed due to politicians.







12

Julian.,

edinburgh 12/07/2009 00:04:30
GraemeH,

If the SNP had had their own way there would have been no tram project as well as no EARL.

As for the Forth Road Bridge, that benefits people to the north of it more than it does Edinburgh. And unlike the m74 extension and the Glasgow airport rail link, renewing the Forth Bridge is not an optional decision for any party.

I think some of the comments here are not too far off the mark. The SNP sees Glasgow as ripe territory to take votes from unpopular Labour. Edinburgh is not such prime territory and possibly loses out when it comes to spending decisions because of this.
13

Ian down under,

Musselburgh 12/07/2009 22:14:38
Edinburgh has always been the poor relation when it comes to getting infrastructure investment. Why should this be? Possibly more votes in the west? But I do wonder whether the Weegies would have moaned and groaned about the upheaval of getting new infrastructure in place. Maybe they recognise more easily the break eggs before the omelette idea better than us.
14

David Thomson,

Livingston 13/07/2009 15:23:24
#6 is using an alias and made up address. He is an Auld Diddy from Livingston. [feel free to report as unsuitable] but troooooooooooo...!!!

 

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