BAA forecasts passenger growth.Byline: BY HUGO DUNCAN Hugo Duncan is a singer and BBC broadcaster from Strabane, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland. His nickname is "The wee man from Strabane". He has two music programmes on BBC Radio in Northern Ireland; Country Afternoon with Hugo Duncan Daily Post Correspondent AIR serives operator BAA put investors on standby standby Medtalk adjective Referring to the immediate availability of a certain specialist–anesthesiologist, surgeon, who can be deployed in a medical emergency. Cf Concurrent. for record passenger numbers yesterday as it plotted continued growth through to 2008. The company, an pounds 8.75bn bid target for Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. firm Ferrovial, said 133.2m passengers passed through its seven UK airports in the 11 months to February 28. It said that trading so far this month indicated growth of just over 2 % for the full year to the end of March, as it outlined further gains at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted in the next two years. BAA forecast passenger numbers at Heathrow to hit 69.6m next year and 130.5m the year after, while Gatwick would increase from 34.1m to 35.3m and Stansted 23m to 23.8m. BAA said the construction of a fifth terminal at Heathrow remained on budget and would open on March 30, 2008. The company said sales at its airport shops in the UK "continued to perform strongly" this year and were expected to deliver growth in income of 2 %. BAA chief executive Mike Clasper said: "The group is on track to deliver trading performance for the year in line with our expectations, a good result given the impact of a softer UK economy and increased security requirements." Group on track for further gains |
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