Heathrow passes 70million mark for first time
BAA airports saw a 4% rise in passenger numbers in March compared with 2011, although this was largely due to the fact that Easter fell earlier this year.
BAA said there was a 6.9% increase in traffic at Heathrow, which handled 5.7m passengers in March, pushing its total for a 12-month period to over 70m passenger for the first time.
BAA-owned Aberdeen saw a 10.2% rise in passenger numbers and at Glasgow traffic was up 4.6%.
However, traffic at Stansted continued to slide, going down 4.7%, at Southampton there were 1.7% fewer passengers last month and at Edinburgh, which BAA has been ordered to sell by the Competition Commission, numbers fell 2.8%.
By Linsey McNeill
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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