BAA September figures

BAA LTD passenger figures for September showed that the British airline market remains resilient, Heathrow in particular doing better than its near Europe competitors with a loss of just -0.3%.  Overall BAA handled 13m passengers down 2.6% on last year, but the fall was unevenly spread around the country.  Edinburgh’s numbers were up by 3.8% whilst Glasgow lost 8.9%.  Gatwick's passenger numbers were marginally down by 0.5% but this represented the airport's best performance since May 2008 as domestic and European scheduled markets showed strong growth, an encouraging sign for any new owner.  See Gatwick sale.  At Stansted the low cost brigade is managing the numbers very well with both capacity and passenger throughput down, but by much the same level, in the 11% region. www.baa.com

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