Manchester still suffering
By Doug Newhouse, 10 March 2010

Manchester Airport's passenger traffic levels are still under pressure in the UK, with the airport reporting that its total traffic was down by -10.66% to 1m passengers in the month of February, with scheduled international traffic down 9.51% to 607,193; charter traffic down 17.07% to 244,607 and domestic traffic also down by 4.05% to 177,182 passengers.

On a moving annual total basis over the last 12 months, Manchester's scheduled international traffic fell by 6.92% to 9.9m passengers; charter traffic declined by 17.99% to 5.8% and domestic air traffic numbers fell by 11.63% to 2.5m passengers. For the 12 months to the end of February 2010, total passenger numbers at Manchester numbered 18.357m.

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