Below are the passenger figures published by HAL for 2014
Number of passengers arriving and departing per day: average 201,000 (split 50/50 between arriving and departing)
Number of passengers arriving and departing in 2014: 73.4 million
Busiest day ever recorded (passenger numbers): 17 August 2014 with 241,412
Busiest year ever recorded (passenger numbers): 2014 with 73.4 million
Percentage of international passengers in 2014: 93% (68.1 million)
Percentage of domestic passengers in 2014: 7% (5.3 million)
Percentage of business travellers in 2014: 30% (22.2 million)
Percentage of other leisure travellers in 2014: 70% (51.2 million)
Percentage of transfer passengers in 2014: 36% (26.3 million)
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Only 30% are business travellers, but there are more = 36% as transfer pax, and 70% pax are leisure travellers.
No individual breakdown of domestic or business travellers as transfer passengers.
Is it really a "hub".
That says it all really doesn't it!
If we want to expand LHR let's do it for the right and correct reasons, not some unsubstantiated 'hub' bull****...
At least LGW's campaign for expansion has been slightly more accurate focusing more on accurate facts and figures and costs which GAL themselves are apparently prepared to pay (albeit at the expense of pax and airlines).