Business travel agents should take heart from the latest BAA figures which indicate Heathrow saw more passengers through its door this August than ever before.
A whopping 6.5 million travellers passed through the airport (up 2.5% on last August), and the airport operator says the boost is thanks in large part to growth in traffic to and from Europe (up 10.4%).
It also says Heathrow benefitted from an upsurge in business travel which would account for the less successful figures attached to its other airports, which are more leisure orientated.
Stansted saw a 6.1% drop in travellers, due to the airport’s reduction in capacity, which also affected matters up north, with Glasgow seeing a drop of 9.4%.
These figures contributed to the overall BAA airports passenger numbers falling 0.6% in August, compared to the same month last year.
by Dinah Hatch
