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BAA’s UK airports handled a total 12.7 million passengers in
May 2008, a drop of 0.5% on the same month last year.
This marginal decrease was due to a 5.3% fall in UK Domestic passengers and a 2.5% decrease in European Charter market passengers
(where a jump in load factors of 4.8 points helped to offset a 7.9% drop in seat capacity).
Other key markets all recorded modest increases, with Europe Scheduled up 0.9%, North Atlantic by 0.5% and other Long Haul by 1.2%.
Among individual airports Heathrow (+0.6%) and Gatwick (+1.1%) were both busier than last year but Stansted’s passenger total was down
by 3.3%. Southampton increased 6.9% but Glasgow suffered from capacity cuts in
charter, domestic and North Atlantic services to record
a drop in passengers of 9.1%. (It had also benefited in the previous year from the presence of the UEFA Cup Final in Glasgow involving two
Spanish teams).
Edinburgh’s traffic was up by 0.7% and Aberdeen’s was 1.3% lower than a year ago.
In total, BAA’s airports handled 1.1% fewer air transport movements in May but a 3.3% increase in cargo tonnage, with Heathrow up by
11%, in line with growth seen since the beginning of the year.
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