Press Release

Good September traffic figures for Gatwick

 

09 October 2009

London Gatwick Airport has reported its best year-on-year traffic figures since May 2008.

BAA has today released passenger and movement statistics for its seven UK airports for September 2009 and, while overall numbers for Gatwick were down by 0.5% in September, the airport recorded strong growth in important domestic and European scheduled markets (+5.8% and +8.7% respectively).

Excluding North American traffic, which continues to be affected by the Open Skies agreement leading US airlines to relocate to Heathrow, passenger numbers grew 1.5% and the year on year effect of Open Skies will moderate significantly from October.

BAA’s seven UK airports handled a total of 13.0 million passengers in September, 2.6% down on last year and a similar year on year result to that achieved in July and August. In March this year, traffic across the UK airports was down 11.3%, so recent figures suggest that while underlying market conditions remain soft, there are some signs of a recovery.

“At Gatwick there are encouraging signs of growth,” Colin Matthews, BAA’s chief executive, said, “particularly in the European scheduled business and the overall numbers around the group appear to be improving.”

Media enquiries: Russell Ison, London Gatwick
Tel + 44 (0)1293 505000

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