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November traffic figures - BAA's airports
BAA’s UK airports handled a total of 9.9m passengers in November. This amounted to an increase of 0.8% over the same month last year. More significantly it marked the first time since March 2008 that BAA’s airports have recorded a collective increase, and follows a six-month run of gradually improving results
10 December 2009

October traffic figures - BAA's airports
BAA’s seven UK airports handled a total of 12.3 million passengers in October, a drop of 1.4% on the same month last year. Although still in decline, this was the best performance since June 2008 and there were some encouraging indicators of improvement in terms of passenger traffic at Heathrow, Gatwick and Edinburgh; a strong upturn in airline load factors and a recovery in cargo traffic.
09 November 2009

September traffic figures - BAA's airports
Heathrow Airport’s passenger traffic remained stable in the month, showing a marginal decrease of 0.3% on September 2008. A 5% drop in aircraft movements and significantly improved capacity utilisation led to a sharp increase in load factor from 73.9% in September 2008 to 78.2% this September
09 October 2009

August traffic figures - BAA's airports
Heathrow Airport handled 6.4 million passengers in August 2009 – up by 0.3% on 2008 - recording its busiest ever August, fuelled by a strong leisure market and Heathrow’s powerful network of international routes...
10 September 2009

July traffic figures - BAA airport traffic stabilising
BAA's UK airports recorded further signs of stabilising traffic figures with the results for July, which was the busiest July at Heathrow since 2006 and Heathrow's third-busiest month on record...
10 August 2009

June traffic figures – BAA's airports
Declines continue to reflect difficult economic circumstances, but underlying airport traffic trends improving.
10 July 2009

May traffic figures BAA's airports
The UK airports owned and operated by BAA handled a total of 11.8 million passengers in May, a drop of 7.3% on the same month last year.
11 June 2009

April traffic figures BAA's airports
Passenger traffic at Heathrow and Edinburgh airports rose in April, driven principally by a busy Easter period...
11 May 2009

March traffic figures BAA's airports
BAA’s UK airports handled a total of 10.6 million passengers in March, a reduction of 11.3% against the same month last year. Around 2-3% points of the reduction can be attributed to the fact that, in 2008, the Easter travel peak centred around the third weekend of March whereas this year the main peak will not have begun until April.
15 April 2009

February traffic figures BAA's airports
BAA's UK airports handled a total of 9.0 million passengers in February, a reduction of 12.5% against the same month in 2008...
10 March 2009

January traffic figures BAA's airports
BAA’s UK airports handled a total of 9.4 million passengers in January 2009...
10 February 2009

December traffic figures BAA's airports
For the year 2008, a total of 145.8 million passengers travelled through BAA’s UK airports...
14 January 2009