CAA survey reveals London airport passenger details
20.10.10
Leisure passengers at Stansted have the lowest annual income of the major London airport users, while Heathrow’s business travellers have the highest, new figures from a major CAA survey reveal. Those on holiday flights leaving from Stansted last year had an average annual income of £44,923, while the average for business passengers leaving Heathrow was £79,335.
The statistics came in a survey of 200,000 departing passengers in 2009. It revealled Heathrow had the highest proportion of London’s passengers travelling alone (64.7%), while Gatwick had the fewest at 40.9%. Gatwick also had the highest proportion of passengers travelling in groups of 5 or more people at 3.3%.
Heathrow had a greater proportion of travellers taking trips lasting more than four weeks, at 7.6%, while Luton saw the lowest proportion, at 1.5%. The largest UK passenger family sizes were found at Gatwick, where 7.3% of respondents had families with five or more, whereas at Heathrow, 29.3% were travelling alone. Luton had the highest proportion of flyers over the age of 74, at 1.9%.
At 40.3%, Heathrow had the highest proportion of leisure passengers in the highest A/B socioeconomic group, while Gatwick had the lowest at 34.7%. Stansted had the most users of public transport at 47.3%, while Luton had the least, at 31.0%.
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