Overall visitors to Melbourne Airport are marginally down on last year. Source: News Limited
THE number of international travellers coming through Melbourne Airport has risen, a 12-month comparison has shown, while domestic passengers were down.
Overall passenger numbers at the airport also marginally dropped, from 2.59 million in November last year to 2.58 million in November this year.
Four per cent more overseas passengers visited the airport in November this year compared to the same month in 2012, rising to more than 602,000.
The biggest boom came from Brazilian passport holders, with a 27 per cent increase, followed by Malaysia (22 per cent), Singapore (16 per cent) and Spain (14 per cent).
Melbourne Airport chief executive Chris Woodruff said growing services from international airlines had helped drive this increase, among them a third daily Malaysia Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur, added last month.
He said Jetstar beginning flights to Japan next year - the first direct service from Melbourne to Tokyo in five years - was also promising for the airport's international sector.
The statistics show fewer domestic travellers are coming to town.
The number of Melbourne Airport domestic passengers dropped about 2 per cent from 2.01 million in November 2012 to 1.98 million last month.
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