UK. BAA’s seven UK airports handled a total of 11.9 million passengers in March, an increase of +3.7% on March 2006.
Of the major markets, European scheduled traffic was up +4.7%. Other long haul traffic grew +10%, within which services to and from India carried +14% more passengers. North Atlantic traffic rose +2.2%. European charter traffic fell -0.3%. Domestic and Irish Republic traffic fell -0.4% and -2.8% respectively.
Of the individual airports, Gatwick grew +5.1% and Southampton gained +5.5%. Stansted was up +3.4%, whilst Heathrow rose +2.8%. In Scotland, each airport reported gains with Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh growing +9.7%, +3.4% and +5.4% respectively.
The total number of air transport movements at BAA airports rose +0.7%.
In the 12 months from April 2006 to March 2007, the UK airports posted a +2.5% rise to 148 million passengers, with London Stansted (+7.2%) and Aberdeen (+10.6%) showing the strongest increases in the period.
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