T5 begins to alter Heathrow terminal mix
30.04.08
Aviation analysts Air4casts have produced an analysis of the impact on Heathrow Airport passenger patterns by terminal for March, following the opening of Terminal 5 (T5) on 27 March. Their figures show that T5 generated 4% of total Heathrow passengers for the month - despite the problems that followed its opening. There were declines for T1 and T4, as BA shifted some flights to T5, and the figures will obviously increase sharply once the full transition to the troubled new British Airways-run terminal is complete.
Heathrow Airport passenger summary (March 2008)
Terminal 1: 1.75m (-7.5%)
Terminal 2: 0.66m (+0.6%)
Terminal 3: 1.71m (+3.7%)
Terminal 4: 1.30m (-10.7%)
Terminal 5: 0.2m (n/a)
Total : 5.61m (-0.6%)
A spokesman for Air4casts noted: ‘In the short March opening period, UK airports accounted for 17% of T5’s departing and arriving passengers. It is sometimes forgotten just how important to the airport domestic travellers are. Over the 5 terminals last month domestic travellers accounted for just under a tenth of the total and at T5 the most popular destination for passengers was Edinburgh.’
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