THE number of people using Manchester Airport has increased again, with 2.8 per cent more people using the airport this May, than last year – despite none of the North’s top football teams making it to the last stages of European competitions again, meaning the airport missed aMay 'football fan boost'.
A total of 2,093,391 people travelled through the North’s major airport in May 2015, up from 2,036,410 in the same period last year.
It moves the rolling annual total to 22,406,306 – an increase of 6.21 per cent year-on-year – and the most ever for Manchester Airport, with current forecasts indicating that the airport will break the 23 million passenger mark by 2016.
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