LONDON: British airports operator BAA Plc. said its October passenger traffic registered a 1 per cent year-on-year increase. It carried 12.6 million passengers during the month. The company operates seven airports including Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.
It said in a statement that European scheduled traffic went up by 1.9 per cent, while passengers on North Atlantic services were up by 0.5 per cent. The other long haul routes recorded a collective increase of 6.1 per cent, while domestic operations saw an increase of 0.9 per cent. There was, however, a drop in the European charter market, which fell by 9.2 per cent, the company said.
Except Heathrow, all the airports had higher passenger volumes during the month with Southampton recording the highest growth, 17.7 per cent. In the case of Heathrow, there was a decline of 0.8 per cent.
BAA also said the number of seats flown by airlines rose by 3.9 per cent, though average load factors fell by two percentage points to 73.4 per cent.
The company cited less aggressive discounting schemes by airlines, the continuing impact of the London bombings and hurricane Wilma as reasons for the slowed down performance.
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on : Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:20 GMT | General News
By : Mike Lawson
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