BAA’s latest figures show UK airports handled a total of 13.8 million passengers in June, a fall of 0.6% on June 2006.
European scheduled traffic was up 0.8%, and other long haul traffic grew 4.3%.
But European charter traffic fell 7.2%, domestic and Irish Republic traffic fell 3.7% and 4.2% respectively, while North Atlantic services were unchanged on a year ago.
Of the individual airports, Gatwick grew 1.3%, whilst Heathrow and Stansted dipped by 1.8% and 1.9% respectively and Southampton fell 1.3%.
In Scotland, Aberdeen and Edinburgh saw respective gains of 7.5% and 3.6%.
Figures at Glasgow were impacted by the recent attempted terrorist attack. Passenger numbers fell 2.4% because over 60% of flights were cancelled or diverted when the airport was temporarily closed in the immediate aftermath of the incident.
By Bev Fearis
