Detailed figures on the number of passengers arriving in Jersey are now available, with the data including both arriving visitors and returning residents. November brought a 2.3% increase in air passenger arrivals, whereas sea passenger arrivals were virtually unchanged compared with November 2016.
November headlines include:
- Air passenger arrivals (arriving visitors and returning residents) were 2.3% up on November last year
- Air routes seeing good growth included Manchester (+468), Nottingham East Midlands (+501) and Glasgow (+541)
- The only air route to see a substantial decline was from Guernsey (-636)
- Sea passenger arrivals were virtually unchanged compared with November 2016
- However there was some variation by route with an additional 189 passengers arriving from Portsmouth but 212 fewer passengers arriving from Guernsey
- Overall arrivals in November 2017 were 1.9%, or 1,129, up on twelve months earlier
Year-to-date headlines include:
- More than three-quarters of a million passengers have arrived at Jersey Airport, a 1.3% rise on the same period of 2016
- Liverpool, Glasgow and London Luton have delivered the strongest growth while arrivals from Guernsey are sharply down
- Sea arrivals are up 0.7% so far in 2017 with Carteret and Cruise being the strongest performers whereas arrivals from Portsmouth are down by 13%
- Across air and sea the number of passenger arrivals is 1.1% up on the same period of last year
November Passenger Arrivals