Capital Gains in Passenger Numbers Edinburgh Soars Ahead On Back of the Success of City Festivals

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EDINBURGH airport has nearly recovered from the aviation downturn, with annual passengers numbers creeping back over nine million for the first time since November, while Glasgow and Aberdeen continued to haemorrhage passengers last month, new figures show.

The capital benefited from the ifth consecutive month of growth, with the success of Edinburgh festivals last month helping to attract thousands of international visitors and pushing a 4.8per cent increase in passenger numbers.

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Capital Gains in Passenger Numbers Edinburgh Soars Ahead On Back of the Success of City Festivals

Heathrow, the UK's biggest airport, also enjoyed its busiest month ever after recording marginal growth in August, with an increase in leisure travel making up f...

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