THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: United Kingdom

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

UNITED KINGDOM DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Edinburgh (EDI)

589

63,662

10.4 %

(-2.4) %

2

London Heathrow (LHR)

450

61,923

10.1 %

6.4 %

3

London Gatwick (LGW)

450

53,026

8.6 %

1.7 %

4

Glasgow (GLA)

485

51,747

8.4 %

8.6 %

5

Manchester (MAN)

433

39,174

6.4 %

10.9 %

6

Belfast International (BFS)

243

38,470

6.3 %

8.2 %

7

Belfast George Best (BHD)

382

35,828

5.8 %

(-6.4) %

8

Aberdeen (ABZ)

399

26,481

4.3 %

5.5 %

9

Jersey (JER)

370

24,672

4.0 %

(-1.6) %

10

Birmingham (BHX)

218

20,462

3.3 %

8.6 %

(Others)

2,996

197,675

32.2 %

(-5.5) %

TOTAL

7,015

613,120

-

0.4 %

HOME AIRPORT: UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

London Heathrow (LHR)

4,083

830,735

35.3 %

(-1.1) %

2

London Gatwick (LGW)

2,014

366,702

15.6 %

(-3.6) %

3

Manchester (MAN)

1,244

221,243

9.4 %

(-0.9) %

4

London Stansted (STN)

1,110

200,173

8.5 %

(-6.1) %

5

London Luton (LTN)

635

109,785

4.7 %

1.4 %

6

Birmingham (BHX)

674

106,443

4.5 %

3.2 %

7

Edinburgh (EDI)

450

65,682

2.8 %

(-2.0) %

8

Bristol (BRS)

415

64,353

2.7 %

(-2.9) %

9

East Midland (EMA)

328

55,715

2.4 %

(-0.9) %

10

Liverpool John Lennon (LPL)

278

47,955

2.0 %

(-23.2) %

(Others)

2,309

286,702

12.2 %

0.4 %

TOTAL

13,540

2,355,488

-

-(2.1) %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)

813

101,694

4.3 %

1.9 %

2

Dublin (DUB)

673

99,042

4.2 %

6.5 %

3

Palma de Mallorca (PMI)

361

67,327

2.9 %

(-4.9) %

4

Malaga (AGP)

332

57,191

2.4 %

(-9.5) %

5

Alicante (ALC)

284

49,912

2.1 %

(-16.1) %

6

Dubai International (DXB)

128

46,591

2.0 %

(-2.1) %

7

Paris CDG (CDG)

351

45,832

1.9 %

0.8 %

8

Faro (FAO)

254

44,534

1.9 %

(-10.8) %

9

Barcelona El Prat (BCN)

253

42,225

1.8 %

41.2 %

10

New York JFK (JFK)

144

41,780

1.8 %

8.0 %

(Others)

9,947

1,759,360

74.7 %

(-2.7) %

TOTAL

13,540

2,355,488

-

(-2.1) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…