BAA's seven UK airports handled a total of 14.2m passengers during July 2004, an increase of 8% on the same month last year. The long haul sector saw the largest increase with traffic back to pre-9/11 levels. North Atlantic routes added 12.3% and other long haul routes grew 14.6%. European scheduled and domestic routes benefited from further expansion in low cost services increasing 10.8% and 6.8% respectively. The weakest sector during July was European charter traffic which recorded a 6.2% decrease in passenger numbers. Stansted recorded the fastest growth of the London airports adding 10.2% while Glasgow became the first Scottish airport to handle 1m passengers in a single month. Heathrow recorded a 7.9% increase and Gatwick 6.1%, while the Scottish airports were up by a combined increase of 9.4%. Southampton was plus 8.5%. (see also OAG).
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