UK. BAA’s UK airports handled 9.5 million passengers in June, a drop of -1.7% on June 2009. Volumes were affected by British Airways cabin crews’ industrial action at the start of the month.
The company’s key location, London Heathrow, handled 5.7 million passengers, up by a marginal +0.1% year-on-year. Without the impact of industrial action it is estimated that Heathrow would have seen 140,000 more passengers last month, a +2.5% increase on last June.
The group’s Scottish airports at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen were all affected by the British Airways industrial action, with drops of -2.0%, -7.0% and -4.0% respectively compared to June 2009. Southampton recorded a +3.7% increase and Stansted a drop of -5.2%. Group-wide passenger numbers would have reached June 2009 levels without the impact of industrial action, noted BAA.
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Overall, the UK airports recorded a drop of -3.1% in the number of air transport movements.
For the first six months of the year BAA UK traffic was down by -5.5% at 47.5 million passengers. Heathrow was down by -3.5% and Stansted by -7.7% on the same period last year.
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