Facts and figures
Number of passengers using BAA’s UK airports 2008
| Airport | Passengers in millions |
| Heathrow | 66.9 |
| Gatwick | 34.2 |
| Stansted | 22.3 |
| Glasgow | 8.1 |
| Edinburgh | 9.0 |
| Aberdeen | 3.3 |
| Southampton | 2.0 |
| Total | 145.8 |
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Airport facts and figures
Visit our airport pages for specific details on Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Low cost airlines
Low cost carriers account for around 20% of flights from our airports. Stansted has the biggest growth in this area where passengers numbers have grown from one million in 1991 to
over 22 million today.
Biggest scheduled airlines
British Airways (BA) has the largest market share of operations across our seven UK airports.
Financial performance - 9 months to September 2008
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Staff
BAA directly employs around 13,000 staff, the majority of which are based at our UK airports.
Heathrow Terminal 5
The public inquiry into Heathrow Terminal 5 was the longest in British planning history, lasting nearly four years. Our planning application was submitted in February 1993 and construction actually began in mid-2002. The terminal opened on 27 March 2008. Find out more about Terminal 5.
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