Originally Posted by
Phileas Fogg
10.5k? Even 25 years ago there were more people travelling LON/NQY than 10.5k per annum, the HP7, five and two half days per week, let's say 32.5 pax per flight, that's over 20k pax per annum!
The furthest back we can easily see is 1989-1990 (CAA 1990 Domestic Passenger stats
UK Airport Statistics: 1990 - annual | Aviation Intelligence | Economic Regulation).
That shows 19700 pax on LHR-NQY for 1989 jumping to 41200 in 1990 (some serious capacity increase there!). Of course there's no quick way to see how many of those were connecting in LHR.