Bosses at Edinburgh Airport have mentioned they noticed a surge in passengers final month - marking the terminal's busiest interval since earlier than the coronavirus pandemic.
As holidaymakers took their first journeys overseas in April following the easement of journey restrictions, the capital's airport welcomed round a million travellers.
The airport had beforehand warned guests in regards to the potential for lengthy queues on account of a mixture of demand and employees vacancies, however mentioned 97.1 per cent of passengers handed by way of safety inside quarter-hour.
Gordon Dewar, chief government of the airport, mentioned it was “good to welcome passengers again to the airport and see so many joyful faces as individuals set off to reunite with household and associates”.
He added: “It was, in fact, a difficult few weeks and we're fairly pleased with the best way the airport operation carried out because it noticed its busiest interval in virtually three years.
He continued: “As ever, there are classes we will study and enhancements we will make as we head into the even busier summer time season.”
The bounce again in passenger figures marks a big enchancment for the aviation sector, which noticed numbers plummet from greater than 1,000,000 to only hundreds.
In April 2019, a complete of 1,258,354 passengers went by way of Edinburgh Airport, however a 12 months later it was simply 5,445.
April 2021 noticed a slight enchancment, with 32,628 passengers, the airport mentioned, however April noticed the variety of individuals improve greater than 28 occasions to 931,522.
Final month, the airport mentioned 90.3 per cent of passengers went by way of safety in below 10 minutes, and in a bid to maintain occasions down is rising additional time charges for employees and persevering with hiring new recruits.
Mr Dewar mentioned: “An enormous thank you have to go to our workforce and others throughout the campus who welcomed and greeted that problem with gusto, and to our passengers who labored with us to organize for his or her journey and confirmed endurance and understanding all through.”
He added: “We want to remind passengers that we'll face some challenges and once more ask them to proceed to work with us by planning forward and guaranteeing they know what they should do earlier than they get right here, and we are going to proceed to do the whole lot we will to get them by way of the airport shortly and comfortably.”
Do not miss the newest information from round Scotland and past - Signal as much as our day by day e-newsletter right here.