Heathrow experienced its busiest day ever on Sunday July 18, when 232,000 passengers passed through the airport.
According to figures from BAA, the airport’s operator, 6.7 million people made journeys through Heathrow in July – 3.5% more than last year.
The number of people travelling through all of BAA’s airports increased by 0.3% to 10.9 million in July.
At Stansted, a near 8% drop in seats offered produced a similar drop of 7.2% in passengers, while in Scotland additional capacity helped to produce an overall increase of 6.6% in passengers travelling to and from Europe.
At the individual airports, Aberdeen’s traffic fell by 4.1%, Edinburgh grew by 0.6% and Glasgow recorded a drop of 3.6%. Southampton’s July numbers were down 1.4%, while traffic at Naples increased by 6.1% in the month.
In total, the number of air transport movements at BAA’s UK airports was 0.4% down on last year, although Heathrow was up 2.9%.
By Bev Fearis
