§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish a table showing the total number of passengers leaving from United Kingdom airports for each year since 1989 and as a total over the same period, broken down into passengers travelling to (i) destinations within the United Kingdom or elsewhere in the EC including the Channel islands and Isle of Man and (ii) elsewhere.
§ 1. Mr. Norris[holding answer 20 January 1994]: The information requested is shown in the table:
Departing terminal passengers at United Kingdom airports Departing passengers to Domestic and EC Other international 1989 32,533,219 16,074,396 1990 33,571,797 17,125,797 1991 31,665,121 15,848,694 1992 34,374,452 18,296,967 January to October 1993 31,395,765 16,826,031 Total of above 163,540,354 84,171,885 Source: CAA Airport Statistics.
2. Includes United Kingdom and Foreign Airlines.
3. Includes Scheduled and Non-scheduled services.
4. Domestic passengers on return journeys will be counted twice, once on the outward leg, once on the return journey.
5. Passengers are allocated to the point at which they disembark from their flight. This may not be their ultimate air destination.
6. Includes Departing passengers at the following airports:
Aberdeen Islay Belfast Kirkwall Belfast City Leeds/Bradford Bembridge Liverpool Benbecula London City Birmingham Luton Blackpool Lydd Bournemouth Manchester Bristol Manston Cambridge Newcastle Cardiff Norwich Coventry Prestwick East Midlands Southampton Edinburgh Southend Exeter Stansted Gatwick Stornoway Glasgow Sumburgh Gloucester Teesside Hawarden Tiree Heathrow Tresco Humberside Uist Inverness Wick