PASSENGER NUMBERS UP AT BRISTOL INTERNATIONAL
First month’s figures show return to growth at airportIn the first month of the new year, more people used Bristol International than in the same month last year, signalling a return to growth at the airport. There were 322,108 passengers in January 2010, an increase of 542 passengers (or 0.2 per cent) over January 2009. Growth was achieved despite significant disruption to flights caused by severe weather across the UK and Europe. It is estimated that, without the impact of the worst snowfall in thirty years, an increase in passenger numbers of at least five per cent would have been