HIGHLANDS and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) enjoyed another year of record passenger numbers at its 11 airports across Scotland in 2016.
The latest figures show a total of 1,606,168 travellers used HIAL airports during 2016, an increase of 154,375 passengers on the 2015 total of 1,451,792 – a rise of 10.6 per cent.
Inverness Airport further illustrated its popularity and increasingly important role to the Highland region and economy by welcoming 796,854 passengers in 2016, a 17.4 per cent year-on-year rise in passenger numbers from 2015, when it had 678,683 passengers – an increase of 118,171 passengers.