Despite the credit crunch and current economic climate, it seems that Scottish travellers have not been put off their overseas travel.

Figures show that overseas flights passengers from Aberdeen increased by 1.3% year on year in June.

Amongst the most popular destinations were Paris, Amsterdam and Stavanger.  The greatest growth in figures were those passengers travelling to Barcelona.

In total, more than 302,000 passengers travelled through Aberdeen airport in June.  This was a slight frop of 1.9% compared to June 2007, it still brought the total traffic for 2008 to date to 1.6 million passengers, an increase on the year to date figures from 2007.

Managing Director of Aberdeen Airport, Kevin Brown, said:

“With the summer schedule well underway, I am very pleased to see an increasing number of passengers now choosing to fly from their local airport to some of Europe’s most popular sunshine destinations.  The trend at Aberdeen is towards continued growth, particularly in the international market.”

Flights from Aberdeen airport are available with airlines suc as bmi, SAS and Flybe and travel to many destinations including Esbjerg, Berlin and Copenhagen.