BAA UK Airports Detailed Traffic Figures for September 2001.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2001 As announced on October October: see month. 3, BAA's seven UK airports handled a total of 11.2 million passengers in September September: see month. , a drop of 6.0% against the same month last year. Passenger numbers were profoundly affected by the terrorist attacks in the USA on September 11. For the first ten days of the month traffic was 3.0% up on last year. In the period following September 11 traffic was down 10.6%. There was strong growth at Stansted Stansted could be
Heathrow experienced a drop for the month of 13.0% with a 0.7% decline in the first ten days, then a 19.7% drop in the period after September 11. Gatwick's 6.2% decrease for the month of September was made up of a 0.6% gain in the first ten days, followed by a 10.0% drop after the September 11. Southampton recorded a fall of 2.2% in the month Traffic in the first few days of October showed a similar decline to that recorded at the end of September. There were gains for the month in domestic traffic (+0.9%), European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. charter (+1.4%) and Irish traffic (+1.9%). The worst affected routes were North Atlantic, down 25.9%. North Atlantic traffic dropped 2.8% in the first ten days, then 38.0% in the period after September 11. Other long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. traffic fell 6.8% for the month, was 1.4% down in the first ten days of the month, then declined 10.0% in the remainder of the month. Air transport movements at the seven airports rose 0.8% in September. 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. fell by 22.2% in the month. Down 11.9% in the period up to the 11th, it fell 27.5% in the latter part of the month. For information on BAA Baa See BBB. see website www.baa.com BAA plc, the international airport group, has international contracts 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.
BAA Traffic Summary : September 2001
Terminal % Fin year to % 12 months to %
Passengers Month Change date: Change Sep-01 Change
(000s) Apr-01 to Sep-01
Heathrow 5,106.8 -13.0 33,133.2 -5.1 62,546.1 -2.0
Gatwick 3,159.8 -6.2 18,973.4 0.4 32,209.7 2.2
Stansted 1,346.5 11.4 8,021.3 17.9 13,475.6 19.5
London
Area
Total 9,613.0 -8.0 60,128.0 -0.8 108,231.4 1.5
South-
ampton 81.5 -2.2 480.3 0.7 870.2 5.5
Glasgow 747.3 6.9 4,262.3 4.9 7,164.8 4.7
Edinburgh 574.6 13.4 3,308.4 9.8 5,900.8 9.8
Aberdeen 225.2 0.5 1,393.8 5.4 2,584.9 6.4
Scottish
Total 1,547.1 8.2 8,964.5 6.7 15,650.6 6.9
BAA Total 11,241.6 -6.0 69,572.8 0.1 124,752.2 2.2
Air
Transport % Fin year to % 12 months to %
Movements Month Change date: Change Sep-01 Change
Apr-01 to Sep-01
Heathrow 37,925 -2.2 235,742 0.5 460,663 0.5
Gatwick 23,162 -1.6 136,659 0.2 252,165 0.4
Stansted 13,662 1.3 84,800 9.2 154,620 6.5
London
Area
Total 74,749 -1.4 457,201 1.9 867,448 1.5
South-
ampton 2,478 -0.1 14,945 -0.4 28,079 4.0
Glasgow 8,457 6.8 49,480 4.6 91,658 4.3
Edinburgh 8,601 14.4 51,332 15.2 96,113 10.8
Aberdeen 7,221 3.8 45,025 8.2 85,817 8.3
Scottish
Total 24,279 8.4 145,837 9.2 273,588 7.8
BAA Total 101,506 0.8 617,983 3.5 1,169,115 2.9
Cargo
(Metric % Fin year to % 12 months to %
Tonnes) Month Change date: Change Sep-01 Change
Apr-01 to Sep-01
Heathrow 85,254 -21.2 588,617 -10.6 1,221,140 -7.9
Gatwick 20,359 -25.4 141,019 -11.3 299,390 -5.9
Stansted 12,014 -24.7 82,336 -0.7 170,971 2.0
London
Area
Total 117,627 -22.3 811,972 -9.8 1,691,501 -6.6
South-
ampton 27 35.0 151 31.3 335 -0.6
Glasgow 593 -40.8 3,711 -27.6 7,255 -20.2
Edinburgh 1,286 -5.4 7,911 -11.2 16,861 -9.6
Aberdeen 321 -11.5 2,242 -3.2 5,081 11.9
Scottish
Total 2,201 -19.2 13,864 -15.2 29,197 -9.6
BAA Total 119,855 -22.2 825,986 -9.9 1,721,032 -6.7
Above data excludes Air Taxi passengers and Air Taxi movements.
Market Comparison: September 2001
BAA Total BAA Total
Market Sep-00 Sep-01 % Change
(000s) (000s)
Domestic 1,872 1,889 0.9
Eire 558 568 1.9
European Scheduled 4,243 4,076 -3.9
European Charter(a) 1,742 1,766 1.4
North Atlantic 1,906 1,413 -25.9
Other Long Haul 1,642 1,530 -6.8
Total 11,961 11,242 -6.0
(a) includes North African North Africa A region of northern Africa generally considered to include the modern-day countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. North African adj. & n. Adj. 1. 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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