Terror threats fail to keep Brits at home
The company, which handles air traffic control at 15 of the UK's busiest airports, said that the number of flights during August increased by 3.1 per cent year-on-year to 220,408, despite the disruptive anti-terrorist actions of August 10th.
Non-transatlantic overflights saw the largest increases in activity, up 18.3 per cent during the month - routes between Ireland and Germany, France, Spain and Italy seeing the largest growth. Transatlantic overflights rose by 7.1 per cent, AFX reported.
The security alert did have an effect on Britain's airports, however, with Heathrow seeing a slight dip of 1.4 per cent in flight activity. Increased demand from business travellers saw Farnborough record an impressive 46.2 per cent increase in activity.
The downward turn was not seen at other airports, however, with low-cost airline hub Luton seeing a rise of 12.1 per cent in activity.
Airports outside of the south-east also did well, with Cardiff and Bristol recording rises of 7.4 and 6.9 per cent respectively.
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