daz211, the numbers you are looking for are considered extremely important by airlines and their investors (which is fundamentally what both the airlines are about) and are published monthly by both the airlines concerned.
So the number of passengers carried in the UK/EUrope for July 2006 are:
BA: 2,303.000
FR: 3,198,977
Load factor is also reported, the figures for UK/Europe in July 06:
BA: 79.7%
FR: 90%
Whether that is a good guide of popularity is debatable, but I guess it's not a bad way of estimating it.
Regarding about insulting posts, quite a few posts on this thread have been deleted, which might make people look nicer than they really are
IMHO airlines are fair game for criticism, passengers who are legally spending their own money to generate revenue for these airlines are less fair game, and I am glad to see it appears the moderator looks at it in the same way.