BAA publishes year end figures

BAA has published its figures for 2009 which show an overall decline of passengers by 4.2% to 106.9m.  Heathrow proved the most robust, the decline just 1.5% on 2008 to 65.9m, Edinburgh up marginally to 9m, with fellow Scottish airport’s Aberdeen and Glasgow  both down by 10% on average.  Stansted lost 10% of its traffic which is now at the 20m-passenger mark per year.  BAA says that if it was not for the December poor weather it would have shown positive numbers overall in December.  Cargo tonnage was up 20%. www.baa.com

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