Southampton Airport celebrates record Summer

Southampton Airport is celebrating its busiest summer on record. Almost 430,000 passengers travelled through its doors during July and August. That's an increase of 14.6% compared to the same period last year.

August proved to be the airport's busiest month on record with 219,757 passengers whilst 207,631 passengers used the airport in July. Prior to this year, the airport's busiest month had been in August 2007 when 205,500 passengers took to the skies. It comes as the airport welcomes four new airlines this year.

Dave Lees, Managing Director at Southampton Airport, says 'It has been a record summer here at Southampton Airport which is due to the amount of popular new flights and routes that we have secured this year. We hope to see this trend continue into 2017'