Brits lead the way

BRITISH fliers led the charge to set a new February record for air traffic at Alicante’s El Altet airport.

The UK, with nearly 268,270 passengers, and the Netherlands, with 70,450, accounted for the highest numbers of travellers landing or taking off at El Altet in a historic month for the terminal, which in

February registered more than 790,700 passengers, the highest ever figure for the month.

Travellers from Britain and the Netherlands were followed by Belgium with 56,000, Norway with 37,500, Germany with 32,970 and Poland with 26,900.

Regarding domestic travel, the total figure reached 128,441 pas ­