HC Deb 27 January 1994 vol 236 c395W
Mr. Dobson

To 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