Lurker,
You truly are a God! Or maybe just Alistair Campbell masquerading as A Lurker. From the BA website, total passenger figures for December 2009 was 2,401,000. The figure for December 2008 was 2,511,000.
In your post you stated
"So in fact our passenger numbers where down circa 0.2%"
From the same BA website, total passenger load factor was 76.8% in December 2009 against 76.7% in December 2008.
In your post you stated
"our load factor was actually UP 1.9%"
Can you confirm that it is not actually freezing outside, and that the snow and ice is just an hallucination?