Facts and figures can be produced and manipulated to support the views someone is trying to make whether positive or negative.
Looking at a full set of figures for April Southend has a gain of 48% over April 2013 making it by far London’s fastest growing airport but if you look at it another way it was the worst performing airport in terms of growth.
Passenger growth by numbers:
Gatwick 422,624
Heathrow 386,951
Stansted 166,280
Luton 84,739
Southend 32,623