BAA Reports Busiest Ever Month.LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1999-- BAA Baa See BBB. plc (Pink Sheets:BAAPY), the UK-based airport company, today announced it hit record levels with 12 million passengers passing through its UK airports in the month of August, up 5.8% against last August, and the first time the 12 million mark has been passed in a single month. 100 million passengers in total have passed through the South East Airports over the year ending this August. August 1999 against August 1998 This month's growth reflects an overall 7.1% increase in the number of airline seats this August. Stansted was the top performing airport with an increase of 390,000 passengers -- more than the combined growth of Heathrow and Gatwick (262,000). Overall Stansted's traffic increased by 42.2% compared with August 1998, with European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. Scheduled growth up over 109.2%. Group-wide, there was a 10% increase in European Scheduled traffic, 80% of which is accounted for by Stansted. Gatwick achieved 3.7% growth including 8.5% on North Atlantic routes and 9.2% on Other Long Haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. routes. Heathrow grew by 2.3% with major increases in Irish traffic (8.1%) and North Atlantic (6.7%). Edinburgh continues to be the second fastest growing airport in the group (14.4%) as it enters the second phase of its (pound) 54 million terminal redevelopment plans. Across the group Domestic & European Charter continued to show low growth levels, but all other market sectors were up by over 5%. Overall the number of air transport movements at BAA airports was up 4.9% on last August while cargo tonnage TONNAGE, mar. law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. 2. The act of congress of March 2, 1799, s. 64, 1 Story's L. U. S. 630, directs that to ascertain the tonnage of any ship or vessel, the surveyor, &c. is in line for the year to date at +1.8%. 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.co.uk. For Tabular tab·u·lar adj. 1. Having a plane surface; flat. 2. Organized as a table or list. 3. Calculated by means of a table. tabular resembling a table. results please contact Taylor Rafferty Associates at 212/889-4350. |
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