Birmingham Airport has recorded the busiest April in its history.
The transport hub said 758,456 passengers passed through the terminal last month, a 16.7 per cent increase compared to the same period last year, beating its previous record for the month set in 2009 by 5.7 per cent.
The record-breaking month also saw a rise in the number of passengers flying on long-haul services from Birmingham, up by 20.9 per cent compared with April 2013.
Scheduled routes which saw the biggest increase last month were Jersey (+173.2 per cent), Fuerteventura (+132.1 per cent), Stuttgart (+98 per cent) and Arrecife (+78.2 per cent).
Birmingham Airport chief executive Paul Kehoe said: "To record the busiest April in our history is a tremendous achievement.
"It demonstrates the strong demand that exists for flights to and from Birmingham and the progress we have made over the past 12 months in particular.
"A strong performance in April is the perfect way to enter the summer season, a period which will also see Birmingham become the first UK airport outside of London to offer direct charter flights to China, as well as new flights starting to Porto, Cologne, Florence, Ibiza, Malta and Athens, among others."
Birmingham Airport is the UK's third largest airport outside London, and the UK's seventh largest overall, handling some nine million passengers a year.
