UK International passenegers 2013

More as a matter of interest I came across the CAA's 2013 stats for UK airports. Interesting reading. For international passengers the total number was 189.7 million. Out of that EU countries were 120.8 million. The top 7 were as follows

1 Spain           32.7 million

2 USA             17.4 million

3 Germany     12.2 million

4 Italy             11    million

5 France        10.4 million

6 Ireland          9.6 million (note Belfast is UK domestic)

7 Netherlands  8.1 million

Other interesting stats is that in April 2014 LHR had 6.1 million transit passengers, LGW had 3.1 million. UK total for that month was 19.6 million. I was never aware just how important transit passengers were to the UK. 

The busiest international route in 2013 was LHR-JFK with 3 million passengers.