UK Airports - Performance
I would agree with your comments for each airport, looking at things from a statistics point of view, pax total for 12m ending 31.07.08:-
Heathrow - 67,879,939 up 1.24% (record was 68,180,945 - 12m end Feb 2008)
Gatwick - 35,458,009 up 2.49% (record was 35,601,289 - 12m end Mar 2008)
Stansted - 23,122,529 down 2.77% (record was 24,037,747 - 12m end October 2007)
Manchester - 21,952,703 down 1.01% (record was 22,578,836 - 12m end July 2006)
Luton - 10,237,686 up 6.19% (record now)
Birmingham - 9,533,145 up 4.35% (record now)
Edinburgh - 9,140,468 up 3.66% (record was 9,152,395 - 12m end June 2008)
Glasgow - 8,645,579 down 2.30% (record was 8,924,427- 12m end May 2007)
Bristol - 6,281,780 up 8.09% (record now)
East Midlands - 5,688,638 up 9.93% (record now)
These figures bear out that East Mids, Bristol, Luton, Birmingham are still growing.
Manchester peaked over 2 years ago.
Lets see what happens over the Winter
BHX5DME