More Brits passing through BAA hubs

About 10.8 million travellers passed through a BAA-operated airport in November, representing a rise of 1.5 per cent compared with the same month in 2006, new figures reveal.

Statistics released by BAA this week additionally show that long-haul routes across the North Atlantic saw the highest rates of growth last month.

Looking at each airport, Gatwick experienced the strongest passenger growth rate during November, followed by Edinburgh and Heathrow.

"In Scotland, Edinburgh's 4.4 per cent increase, attributable mainly to additional European scheduled traffic, took it past the nine million passenger milestone," BAA said in its statement.

December could see a bigger increase in passenger traffic as a result of the peak Christmas travel period. Last year, BAA airports handled a total of 10.9 million travellers in December, despite foggy conditions in the south-east of England adversely affecting some flights in the run-up to Christmas.

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