BAA passengers down 7.3%
10.06.09
BAA's seven UK airports handled a total of 11.8 million passengers in May, a drop of 7.3% on the same month last year. Heathrow recorded the smallest drop of 3.9%, 'again demonstrating the resilience and importance of Britain’s international hub airport,' the company said. The result was consistent with the underlying traffic trends recorded since December last year, 'providing more evidence that demand conditions remain weak but are not changing materially'.
In its major market segments European scheduled traffic was down by 5.2% and North Atlantic traffic by 9.1%, while other long haul routes recorded a collective 1.8% decrease. The results in both long haul segments represented slight improvements on recent trends while European scheduled performance was unchanged.
Domestic traffic was down by 10.0%, a slight worsening on recent months. And despite falling by 20.5%, European charter traffic actually improved on its recent underlying trend.
Edinburgh was the only airport to record an increase in passengers (+1.4%), helped by new low-cost services. This is the second consecutive month in which Edinburgh’s traffic has grown.
Elsewhere, Gatwick improved on recent trends with a decrease of 6.5%, helped by a strengthened summer schedule. Traffic at Stansted fell by 18.5%, as some airlines continued to reduce capacity in response to the difficult economic conditions.
Glasgow’s 11.7% drop continued the pattern of the last six months, Aberdeen recorded a 14.1% decline and Southampton’s traffic was down 12.5%. In total the number of air transport movements was 8% lower, with Heathrow down 2.9%.
In the 12 months to the end of May Heathrow passengers were down 2.9% (65.9m), Gatwick down 7.6% (32.8m) and Stansted down 10% (21.0m). Southampton passengers were down 8.1% (1.8m), Glasgow down 9.7% (7.7m), Edinburgh down 2.5% (8.9m) and Aberdeen down 7.4% (3.2m). Overall the seven airports were down 5.6% to 141.4m.
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