The CAA August stats show a better picture for the airport in Aug.
Domestic routes: Gatwick +18%, Heathrow +6% Aberdeen +55% Belfast City +14% and Southampton +1% all the others are down. (Jersey has not published yet)
International routes: Nice +2%, Rome +2%, All Spanish scheduled routes are up except Tenerife (the charter figure is down in every case) Faro scheduled is up, charter is down. Dubai continues to rise with a 4% increase.
The airport pax figure as a whole, is down 5.5% which is a lot better than some in August. The rolling year pax figure is 10.6% down at 4,673,982 so it looks like we shall make the magical 5m figure this year.