China and India boost Heathrow numbers

The growing market from China and India led Heathrow to have its busiest January since 2006 this year.
Passenger numbers on routes to China from the London hub grew 30 per cent, while those to India rose 10 per cent, leading to the airport’s strongest January long-haul performance ever.
The airport saw total passenger numbers rise 4.6 per cent year on year to 5.05 million in January. Only half of this rise is attributed by Heathrow’s owners BAA to the bad weather in January 2010.
BAA’s airports as a whole saw an underlying increase of between 1.5% and 2% year on year this January. Domestic traffic grew most strongly, up 8.3%, having been more affected by snow in the same month last year. European scheduled traffic rose 2.7% and the North Atlantic services increased by 3.2%.
11/02/11 Gary Noakes/ABTN

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Categories: Airports Feb 2011, Foreign Feb 2011