BAA April figures

Passenger numbers through BAA’s airports in April totalled 9.1m, a 0.1% increase on the same month last year.  Year-on-year comparisons are complicated by the timing of Easter so combining March and April traffic reveals a year-on-year increase of 1.9%.

For Heathrow the figure was 5.8m, marginally up on April 2011, but another record month for the airport.  Heathrow’s load factors continued to increase, rising 0.1 percentage points in April, to 76.4%.  The average number of seats per aircraft was also up, rising 1.1% to 197.6.  This can be explained by the airlines better use of capacity and the increasing number of Airbus A380s now in the schedules, usually replacing a smaller Boeing 747.  Cargo movement was down 1.1% across the group and 2.5% at Heathrow, in line with the global economic climate.

The decline in Stansted’s passenger numbers was 2.7%, in fact the lowest level in nearly a year.  Aberdeen passenger numbers improved by 11.0%, reflecting the strength in energy related traffic, whilst Glasgow recorded a 6.7% increase.  Edinburgh Airport, the sale of which was agreed in April to Global Infrastructure Partners for £807.2m, saw passenger numbers down -1.1%. www.baa.com

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