BAA’s passenger figures for January indicate that confidence in air travel is continuing to return following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The operator’s seven UK airports handled 8 million passengers last month – while this was down 3.9% compared to January last year, it represents continued recovery on the results for October, November and December which were down by 12%, 10.6% and 6.4% respectively.
North Atlantic and domestic traffic showed the biggest improvement and were down in January by 10.1% and 2.7% respectively. In December North Atlantic traffic fell by 13% and domestic traffic by 6.5%.
