BAA Reports May 2010 Traffic

BAA's passenger traffic in May 2010 was affected by the effects of the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud and by the British Airways' cabin crew industrial action.

Despite this, BAA's UK airports handled 8.6 million passengers in the month, which was a drop of 4.5% on May 2009. Heathrow handled 5.3 million passengers, 3.1% down on last year. Without these impacts, BAA estimates that Heathrow would have recorded an increase of 2.8% and the group as whole an increase of 0.4%.

In total, BAA's UK airports recorded a drop of 4.8% in the number of air transport movements.

 Continuing a period of exceptionally strong growth in cargo traffic, and despite the drop in aircraft movements, cargo tonnage was up by 36.1% at Heathrow and by 33.7% at the wider group level.

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