UK to US traffic goes down in 2009
March 10th, 2010 | by sergio |After the liberalisation of UK-US air traffic in 2008, last year we witnessed a fall in passengers of 10% in the UK to US routes.
In 2008 and 2009, the share of UK to US traffic generated by airports other than Heathrow and Gatwick fell from 18% to 14%. In fact, Heathrow’s share of scheduled UK-US traffic has leapt from 61% in 2007 to 70% in 2008 and 76% in 2009.
Combining the traffic across both airports and comparing with 2007, traffic was down by more than 10% in four months; February (-10.0%), March (-15.7%), November (-14.8%) and December (-12.5%).
From the airlines point of vew, carriers have cut capacity in February 2010 relative to 2009. Virgin Atlantic no longer operates its Chicago route year round but it should resume this service on 27 May.
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