London Stansted celebrates 25th consecutive month of pax growth in Apr-2016

London Stansted Airport reported (11-May-2016) a 2.7% year-on-year increase to 2.0 million passengers in Apr-2016, marking the 25th consecutive month of passenger growth at the UK's fourth busiest airport. Cargo volume increased 12.6% to 20,826 tonnes while aircraft movements increased 2.4% to 13,669 in Apr-2016. London Stansted Airport CEO Andrew Cowan said: "The first full month of the summer flying schedule saw passenger traffic continue to grow at Stansted with a record number of seats occupied on each flight for any April in the airport's history. In our 25th anniversary year, we have now seen passenger numbers grow for 25 consecutive months, a very timely achievement that has helped us add over two million passengers to the annual total in the last year alone and pushing us ever closer to our all-time high of 24 million passengers a year. The summer season promises to be a very busy and exciting time at Stansted. This month we have already seen the launch of Thomson's new Dreamliner flights to Florida and Cancun and at the end of May we will welcome British Airways to Stansted with its first ever scheduled flights to the popular holiday sunspots of Faro, Malaga, Palma and Ibiza plus a new service to Berlin. In addition to this great news, passengers will also enjoy even more choice as Ryanair adds more routes and increases capacity to key destinations across its already extensive network on offer at Stansted." [more - original PR]