THE number of passengers using Isle of Man Airport has fallen sharply.
Around 59,500 passengers passed through the terminal in September, a drop of 7.5 per cent on the same month last year when some 64,300 used the airport.
While a fall in traffic was expected, the decrease is significantly greater than anticipated.
It is partly the result of hundreds of visitors to last year’s Commonwealth Youth Games having to switch from sea to air travel as poor weather cancelled ferry departures.
With 4,800 fewer passengers using Ronaldsway, it’s the largest fall in traffic since the winter storms caused a drop of 8,100 in December 2010 and the lowest September throughput for the airport since 1996.