February 2012 traffic figures - BAA's airports

7.3m passengers travelled through BAA’s airports in February, a rise of 2.5% on the previous year. Heathrow demonstrated resilience with nearly 4.8m passengers passing through the airport’s doors last month, a rise of 3.8%. After adjusting for the effect of the leap year, BAA as a whole handled 7.1m passengers, down 0.9%, and Heathrow 4.6m passengers, a rise of 0.3%.

On an absolute basis, passenger numbers also rose at Glasgow (3.2%), Edinburgh (0.1%), Southampton (4.5%) and Aberdeen (18.7%), but were down at Stansted (-4.9%). Across the group, there was a strong demand for all destinations except the UK and Ireland. North Atlantic traffic was up 7.4%, with other long haul destinations up 1.3%. Passenger numbers on European scheduled routes were up 2.8%, whilst European Charter traffic benefitted from good skiing conditions and was up 17.1%.

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