CAA passenger survey

CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY (CAA) has published the results of its 2008 Air Passenger Survey, which questioned over 200,000 departing air passengers about their travel patterns at the five London airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and London City) as well as at Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter and Manchester airports.  For almost every airport surveyed in both 2007 and 2008, for both business and leisure travellers, annual passenger income has dropped (only leisure passengers at Luton and Manchester recorded small rises).  London City was the only airport surveyed where business passengers, at 56%, were in the majority. This compared with 34% at Heathrow, an airport which saw 1.2m fewer business passengers in 2008 than 2007.  Only 20% of passengers were travelling on business at Exeter and 19% at Manchester, which was down 1% on 2007.  Both Luton and Stansted showed growth in the proportion of business passengers of around 1% at each airport. www.caa.co.uk/surveys

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