Scottish airports celebrate busiest ever year
Scottish airports are booming, celebrating their busiest year yet.
Almost 9.8 million people used Edinburgh Airport in 2013, an increase of 6.3% on the previous year.
This sees Edinburgh Airport rise to the fifth busiest airport in the UK and the third biggest city in the UK in terms of airport passenger numbers, following London and Manchester.
While Aberdeen Airport also saw record passenger levels, with more than 3.48 million people passing through in 2013.
This beats the previous record high of 3.43 million in 2007, before the economic downturn.
The 2013 figure represents 3.79% growth on the previous year and of those there were 517,526 helicopter passengers.
Gordon Dewar, chief executive at Edinburgh Airport, said: "2013 was a landmark year for Edinburgh Airport. It was a year in which we fulfilled our promises on new route development, securing three long haul hub connections and bolstering our domestic and European services. We also commenced work on a £25m expansion and improvement project."
Aberdeen Airport MD Carol Benzie said: "We will be challenging all the relevant authorities on issues including surface access to our airport and the burden placed on passengers by Air Passenger Duty."
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