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BAA sees April traffic figures fall
BAA’s traffic figures fell by 4.5% in April, partly because Easter fell early this year.
However even taking March and April’s figures together, which largely eliminates the distorting effects of changed Easter dates, the result was still a decline of 0.7%.
The UK airport operator handled 9.7m passengers during the month compared to 10.2m in the same month last year. European charter traffic fell by 18.4%, due to the earlier Easter. Perhaps more worryingly, North Atlantic traffic by 12.4% representing a decline of 8.9% over the two months. Previously BAA’s North Atlantic figures had shown traffic down by 7.7% in February and 5.4% in March.
Among individual airports Edinburgh (+17.2%), Stansted (+7.7%) and Glasgow (+4.0) experienced growth, largely underpinned by the low cost scheduled airlines. Heathrow recorded a fall of 3.5% and Gatwick saw declines of 18.3%.
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