UK airport top ten

[richardhall99]

Just wondering what were the top ten airports in the UK for pax numbers
My guess is:

London Heathrow
Manchester
London Gatwick

and after that im not sure.....apparently London City is tenth

Birmingham
London Stansted
Edinburgh
Glasgow
London Luton
Newcastle
Liverpool
Bristol
Aberdeen
Cardiff
Leeds Bradford

any ideas?

and Aurigny are to fly Bristol - Guernsey daily all year

[brabazon]

The following is a link to the CAA's statistics, the full year for 2002 won't be out for a while so you could check out the latest full month's data - namely Oct 2002.

Unfortunately the file names are not very helpful but you should be able to find the passenger numbers download the data into Excel to sort by total.

Good luck

http://www.caa.co.uk/erg/erg_stats/sgl.asp?sglid=3

[CHIVILCOY]

I think you will find that GLA is well ahead of EDI :)

[682ft AMSL]

Different measures will show different results. In 2001 for example......

Top 10 airports for International Charter pax

LGW 11,027,938
MAN 9,613,902
BHX 2,823,028
GLA 2,012,643
EMA 1,587,253
NCL 1,536,453
LTN 1,370,474
BRS 1,196,382
STN 1,075,501
CWL 979,749


whereas the top 10 airports for International scheduled pax looks quite different

LHR 53,691,308
LGW 17,034,349
STN 10,466,165
MAN 6,600,391
BHX 3,674,545
LTN 3,377,633
GLA 1,358,177
EDI 1,349,899
LPL 1,332,804
LCY 1,167,624


No doubt Domestic routes would look different again as would a list complied in summer months vs winter etc etc

682

[eastern wiseguy]

Haven't seen OUR figures yet ...but both BFS and bhd are in the UK!!!!! .... and BFS reckon on at least 4,000,000 pax (mostly domestic I reckon) this year ..should raise us up the list a shade...at least above Cardiff Bristol maybe Leeds and Liverpool?

[Joe Curry]

>>I think you will find that GLA is well ahead of EDI <<

800.00 pax ahead at end of 2002 but the lead is being cut
every month. EDI should overtake GLA by late 2004, early
2005 on present 'form'.

In fact both airports will be in the 7,000,000 million pax+ brackets around May/June this year.

A 'form' that is remarkable given EDI has a smaller % of
Scottish charters and very little transatlantic traffic.

EDI already has the biggest percentage of domestic and
scheduled EU international pax.

EDI also looks like holding the busiest Scottish airport title
at least six/seven months out of twelve - I would not describe that as GLA being well ahead of EDI.

Regular spreadsheets are posted each month in the free.uk.airports.edinburgh-binaries newsgroup for those
interested in CAA/BAA figures.

[682ft AMSL]

Interesting points Joe.

You should really try and get in touch with another EDI enthusiast, who coincidentally is also called Joe Curry, who for years has been lambasting the owners of EDI, claiming they are involved in a conspiracy against the airport and are purposefully mismanaging it for the benefit of GLA.

With such opposing views, I'm sure you'd enjoy an interesting debate!

[dwlpl]

The figures below is all airports with pax throughput greater than 1million.

Figures are for twelve months to the end of Oct 2002, figures in brackets are the position for the twelve month period ending Oct 2001.

1. HEATHROW (1) 61846019
2. GATWICK (2) 29193596
3. MANCHESTER (3) 18452229
4. STANSTED (4) 15371667
5. BIRMINGHAM (5) 7750686
6. GLASGOW (6) 7696307
7. EDINBURGH (8) 6765265
8. LUTON (7) 6429096
9. BELFAST INT (9) 3491242
10. NEWCASTLE (10) 3326334
11. BRISTOL (11) 3304916
12. EAST MIDLANDS (13) 3000161
13. LIVERPOOL (14) 2746743
14. ABERDEEN (12) 2533683
15. BELFAST CITY (19) 1852926
16. LONDON CITY (15) 1603221
17. LEEDS BRADFORD (16) 1485861
18. PRESTWICK (18) 1456881
19. CARDIFF WALES (17) 1363414

[Ian Farquharson]

Final 2002 totals are not yet finalised, however, approx numbers are:-

Heathrow 63.2m up 4.3%
Gatwick 29.6m down 5.1%
Manchester 18.7m down 2.4%
Stansted 16.1m up 17.5%
Birmingham 8.0m up 2.6%
Glasgow 7.8m up 7.3%
Edinburgh 7.0m up 14.5%
Luton 6.5m down 1.0%

After that (not in order) are East Mids, Newcastle, Belfast, Bristol & Liverpool


Ian

[dwlpl]

..... final anual pax total for Liverpool in 2002 is 2.84million (2.26million in 2001) an increase of 26%.

[Joe Curry]

>>You should really try and get in touch with another EDI enthusiast, who coincidentally is also called Joe Curry, who for years has been lambasting the owners of EDI, claiming they are involved in a conspiracy against the airport and are purposefully mismanaging it for the benefit of GLA. <<

I don't see any long-haul or extensive charter traffic at EDI.
I don't see full length taxiways...multi-storey car park...
International Pier..the ATC is tower is 30 years behind schedule.

The new terminal at EDI will reach it's 7.5M design capacity
this year and I don't see any plans for terminal expansion.

I do see BAA allocating a further £200M on terminal expansion
at GLA - the design capacity of the present one is 8.5M and
that figure will not be reached until 2004 'maybe'.

Flying from EDI is a licence to print money but BAA cannot see
the wood for the trees.

Will Health and Safety and Fire regulations force BAA's hand
into parting with money at EDI or will the CAA be forced to consider BAA's licence.?:mad:

[Departures Beckham]

Stansted is the third largest in terms of the number of aircraft movements. We are however (as shown above) 4th in terms of passenger numbers, the reason being that we have lower capacity aircraft than MAN.

[lambchopboy]

not long before Manchester is knocked into 4th place!!!:)

[Sir George Cayley]

Or if the UK had a proper open skies policy

Not long before Gatwick is knocked into 3rd place !!!!!!!


Sir George Cayley


The air is a navigable ocean that laps at everyones door

[GrahamK]

Unfortunatly when I flew through EDI last year I didnt see any security until I got to the gate...have things improved since?
:confused: