Busiest ever Christmas period ready to take off at Leeds Bradford Airport

Leeds Bradford Airport is the UK airport where passengers are least likely to experience any significant delays during the festive season, accoridng to statistics released by kayak.co.uk.

These figures were released just as LBA is set to experience its busiest ever Christmas period.

Only 4% of flights were delayed by more than 30 minutes over the Christmas periods in both 2015 and 2014 at Leeds Bradford, which the lowest across all UK airports.

In total, nine new routes are available this Christmas and New Year period including New York, Berlin, Vilnius, Warsaw, Bratislava, Gran Canaria, Guernsey, Newquay, with the newest of all, Grenoble commencing on December 23; with Jet2.com.

Passengers will be able to fly to over 40 destinations from LBA over the festive period.

In addition, Jet2.com, Ryanair and Monarch have all added additional frequencies on their existing flying programme from Leeds Bradford Airport to cope with increased demand.

Tony Hallwood, aviation development director at LBA, said: “We are very much looking forward to Christmas here at LBA, we know this is an important and exciting time for passengers and we are committed to delivering a great service and airport experience to start their Christmas break.

“I am pleased to hear that the recent statistics show just how focused we are maintaining a good on-time service.

“We are also looking forward to welcoming an increasing number of overseas visitors to the region who can now fly directly into LBA for the first time on our new services from Poland, Slovakia and Lithuania.”

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