Originally Posted by TheOddOne
UK's favourite airports:
Heathrow - favourite with 67 million people a year
Gatwick - 32 million a year
Stansted - 22 million
Manchester - 21 million
the next few, not so popular on about 8 million (ish)
Birmingham
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Luton
etc etc etc
Any other kind of 'popularity' rating is just tosh.
It's a bit like the old one about Tesco's 'no-one ever shops at Tesco's because of all the queues'. There are only queues because EVERYONE shops there!
Cheers,
TheOddOne
All this shows is where airlines choose to base not where the punters want to fly from.