BAA August Traffic Figures.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2001 BAA Baa See BBB. plc, the international airport group, today announced its UK airports handled a total of 12.9 million passengers in August, 2% more than in August 2000. The main factor in the increase was outbound out·bound adj. Outward bound; headed away: outbound trains. Adj. 1. outbound - that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships" British tourism and UK domestic travel reinforced by the continued growth of low fare services. UK domestic traffic rose 5.5% compared with August 2000, with a total of nearly 2.1 million passengers. European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. scheduled services carried 3.8% more passengers compared to the same month last year and European charter services rose 3.9%. North Atlantic traffic declined by 3.6% because of a drop in the number of US visitors to the UK. Other long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. routes recorded a collective drop of 1.0%. Among individual airports Stansted Stansted could be
Glasgow (glăs`gō, –kō, glăz`gō), city (1991 pop. 688,500) and council area, S central Scotland, on the river Clyde. (+6.6%) saw growth in all markets. Gatwick traffic rose 0.8%. Heathrow saw a drop of 1.8% but there was an increase of 2.9% in its other long haul services. Air transport movements increased by 3.1% while cargo dropped 10.3%. In the immediate future, air travel will obviously be subject to disruption disruption /dis·rup·tion/ (dis-rup´shun) a morphologic defect resulting from the extrinsic breakdown of, or interference with, a developmental process. in the wake of the shocking and tragic events in America. BAA's international contracts include in the US: Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Boston Logan; in Australia: Melbourne, Launceston, Perth, Alice Springs Alice Springs, town (1991 pop. 20,448), Northern Territory, Australia. It lies in a pastoral area surrounded by desert near the center of the continent and is a stop on the Adelaide Darwin Railway. , Tennant Creek and Darwin Darwin, city (1991 pop. 67,946), capital of the Northern Territory, N Australia, on Port Darwin, an inlet of the Timor Sea. Remotely situated on the sparsely settled north coast, Darwin had no rail connection with any of the major Australian cities until 2003, when ; in Continental Europe Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands and, at times, peninsulas. : Naples; in the Middle East: Seeb International and Salalah in Oman; in the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. : Mauritius. BAA ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. ; prices may be accessed on Bloomberg Bloomberg A major global provider of 24-hour financial news and information including real-time and historic price data, financials data, trading news and analyst coverage, as well as general news and sports. under the symbol BAA LN, on the Reuter Equities 2000 Service under BAA.L and on Quotron under BAANU.EU. BAA ADRs, each equal to one ordinary share, appear on the pink sheets under BAAPY. Additional information is available on BAA's home page: http://www.baa.com.
BAA Traffic Summary : August 2001
Fin year
Terminal to date:
Passengers % Apr-01 % 12 months to %
(000s) Month Change to Aug-01 Change Aug-01 Change
Heathrow 6,042.0 -1.8 28,026.4 -3.4 63,311.1 -0.5
Gatwick 3,647.4 0.8 15,813.6 1.8 32,417.3 3.6
Stansted 1,566.2 17.3 6,674.9 19.3 13,338.1 20.6
London Area
Total 11,255.6 1.4 50,514.9 0.7 109,066.5 2.9
Southampton 86.4 -0.5 398.9 1.3 872.1 7.0
Glasgow 751.7 6.6 3,515.0 4.4 7,116.5 4.0
Edinburgh 595.0 8.2 2,733.9 9.1 5,833.1 9.0
Aberdeen 240.5 3.7 1,168.6 6.3 2,583.7 6.4
Scottish
Total 1,587.3 6.8 7,417.4 6.4 15,533.3 6.2
BAA Total 12,929.3 2.0 58,331.2 1.4 125,471.8 3.4
Fin year
Air to date:
Transport % Apr-01 % 12 months to %
Movements Month Change to Aug-01 Change Aug-01 Change
Heathrow 40,493 0.7 197,817 1.0 461,501 0.8
Gatwick 24,689 0.8 113,497 0.6 252,544 0.9
Stansted 14,994 6.6 71,138 10.9 154,448 6.9
London Area
Total 80,176 1.8 382,452 2.6 868,493 1.8
Southampton 2,710 -1.1 12,467 -0.4 28,082 5.2
Glasgow 8,562 4.2 41,023 4.1 91,117 3.7
Edinburgh 8,799 12.4 42,731 15.3 95,033 9.6
Aberdeen 8,046 7.2 37,804 9.0 85,554 8.2
Scottish
Total 25,407 7.9 121,558 9.4 271,704 7.1
BAA Total 108,293 3.1 516,477 4.0 1,168,279 3.1
Fin year
Cargo to date:
(Metric % Apr-01 % 12 months to %
Tons) Month Change to Aug-01 Change Aug-01 Change
Heathrow 96,183 -10.7 503,363 -8.5 1,244,023 -6.3
Gatwick 23,906 -8.2 120,660 -8.4 306,309 -3.4
Stansted 13,409 -10.3 70,322 5.0 174,910 4.8
London Area
Total 133,498 -10.2 694,345 -7.3 1,725,242 -4.8
Southampton 29 38.1 124 30.5 328 -11.1
Glasgow 675 -24.0 3,118 -24.4 7,664 -17.0
Edinburgh 1,265 -14.5 6,624 -12.2 16,934 -10.9
Aberdeen 419 2.6 1,921 -1.6 5,123 12.1
Scottish
Total 2,359 -15.0 11,663 -14.4 29,721 -9.4
BAA Total 135,886 -10.3 706,132 -7.4 1,755,291 -4.9
Above data excludes Air Taxi passengers and Air Taxi movements.
Market Comparison: August 2001
BAA Total BAA Total
Market Aug-00 Aug-01 % Change
(000s) (000s)
Domestic 1,976 2,085 5.5
Eire 621 617 -0.5
European Scheduled 4,452 4,619 3.8
European Charter(1) 1,787 1,856 3.9
North Atlantic 2,072 1,998 -3.6
Other Long Haul 1,771 1,753 -1.0
Total 12,678 12,929 2.0
(1) includes North African Charter
Note: Origins and destinations are classified according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ultimate origin or destination of aircraft in the case of multi sector flights Note: Figures for the market sectors have been rounded. Totals as per Traffic Summary |
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