BAA February 2009 Traffic
 

Heathrow - 4,370,800 down 9.5%

Gatwick - 1,989,400 down 14.4%

Stansted - 1,296,300 down 16.2%

Edinburgh - 562,500 down 11.8%

Glasgow - 421,900 down 17.4%

Aberdeen - 204,300 down 16.0%

Southampton - 108,500 down 20.0%

Is that a year on year running total? Southampton drops a fifth of it's passengers in a year?

Important to remember particularly for the London airports these will include the snow-related delays and cancellations.

Skipness

These are Feb 09 v Feb 08 only.

Adjustments
 

BAA have added adjusted figures to the pax report to make it read better. The 3% adjustment for one less day is fair but some of the snow related adjustments may be overdone as PAX will travel on a later day instead some of the time.

You have also plenty of snow to get people keen on going to Ski.

The fall is real as far as loss of income goes. The chance of BAA paying for expansion is getting very small. naples is also owned by BAA and shows a -15.5% change in pax.

It is time to face the fact that there seems to be a 10-20% drop in airtravel from the UK in 2009.

Add to that cargo tonnage down 20% overall Feb 09 against 08.

Manchester also down 16%

I would suggest that the reduction is immaterial compared to the drop in yield?

Its the same in Ireland Dublin is down by 12%

Socking figures !

East Midlands - 296,722 down 24.7%

Luton - 544,956 down 23.8%

Newcastle - 250,640 down 22.5%

Bristol - 322,088 down 25.9%

Exeter - 41,359 down 29.4%

Norwich - 26,898 down 25.2%

Blackpool - 7,376 down 69.7%

Coventry - 36 down 99.8%

Source CAA

And all those departure taxes Gordon has missed out on :{ fleecing the traveling public with it not going back into the transport infrastructure :=