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British passenger traffic stabilizing: BAA.


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, operator of Britain s main airports, said Monday that passenger traffic fell in July compared with a year earlier but was showing signs of stabilization after sharp falls due to the economic slowdown.

"BAA s UK airports recorded further signs of stabilizing traffic figures with the results for July," the Spanish-owned operator said in a statement.

BAA airports handled 14.5 million passengers last month, down 2.4 percent compared with July 2008, following falls of 5.9 percent in June and 7.3 percent in May.

London Heathrow, Europe s busiest airport, handled 6.5 million passengers in July, up 0.9 percent on the same month in 2008. BAA is owned by the Spanish construction group Ferrovial, which is in the process of selling London Gatwick airport Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW, ICAO: EGKK) is London's second largest airport and the second busiest airport in the United Kingdom after Heathrow. It is also the world's busiest single runway airport, and the world's 22nd busiest airport (7th in terms of  after being ordered to do so by Britain s competition watchdog.

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