Airport News
UK airports 'handled 241m'
Thu, 13 Mar, 2008
A full 241 million passengers passed through UK airports last year, research by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has revealed.
Although this represents a 2.4 per cent growth over the year, the organisation notes that this is the slowest rate in a decade.
The majority of UK passengers were handled by London airports (58 per cent), with an increase of 2.8 million passengers on the previous year.
London Gatwick Airport recorded the biggest growth rate, serving one million more travellers in 2007 than in 2006.
The majority of people passing through UK airports were travelling to and from European destinations (139 million), with Poland, Italy and Spain recording the biggest passenger increases.
Around 22.4 million people flew between the UK and North America and 30.6 million others flew to the remaining international destinations such as the Middle East and Australasia.
Robin Broke of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions has stated that the UK has a developed package tour to meet the demands of the British population who like to go abroad on holiday.