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June passenger numbers down at UK airports
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
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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