Mixed performances for Scottish airports

Glasgow Airport enjoyed its busiest May in seven years. Picture: John Devlin

Edinburgh and Glasgow airports enjoyed bumper traffic last month, but Aberdeen was left trailing due to the downturn in the North Sea.

More than one million passengers passed through Edinburgh Airport in May – an increase of 9.3 per cent on the year before and a record for the month – and chief executive Gordon Dewar hailed the milestone as “phenomenal”.

He added: “Increased capacity on routes to Paris, Basel, Lisbon and Madrid with EasyJet, as well as Qatar Airways increasing their Doha service to daily at the beginning of May and the launch of the new American Airlines service to JFK have all meant more passengers through our doors.”