Article from BTNews 17 JUNE 2019
Heathrow tops 80m passengers
In a flurry of pace-setting results from UK airports, Heathrow last week announced a 31st month of record growth in May, taking its annual passenger total for the year from June 2018 to more than 80m.
The May figure was 6.7m, up 1.4% on the same time last year, helped by two bank holidays in one month which saw more people taking advantage of the long weekends to travel.
Oceania was the best performing region (+10.8%) as Qantas flew fuller aircraft. East Asia (+10.7%) was close behind with new routes to China and Japan, while domestic traffic also grew by 2.2% boosted by new Flybe routes to Newquay and Guernsey.
More than 134,000 metric tonnes of cargo also travelled through the UK’s largest port in May, 94% of it in the hold of passenger aircraft. Latin America saw the most growth (+14%) following additional services to Brazil and Mexico.
Meanwhile, Heathrow expansion is set to reach its next delivery milestone tomorrow, 18 June, as the airport kicks-off a 12-week consultation giving the public the opportunity to see the airport’s latest plan in detail and comment on it.
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