maybe other airport combinations between Dublin and London make up the difference
Gatwick, Stansted, Luton... Am I forgetting any?
They'd have to share 6.2 million passengers to make up the 8m sum, and that would put at least one of them (if not two or three) in the table above Heathrow-Dublin.
The DAA said yesterday that a record 23.5 million passengers used Dublin airport last year, an increase of 1 per cent on 2007.Passenger traffic rose by 5 per cent in the first half of the year, but declined by 3 per cent between July and December as the effects of the global credit crunch, rising fuel prices and the economic downturn here took hold.Passenger numbers declined in each of the last four months of 2008. "Given the current economic climate, the outlook for 2009 remains difficult, and passenger numbers at Dublin airport are expected to decline in line with the contraction in Irish GDP," the DAA said.Traffic to the UK declined last year by 1 per cent to 8.6 million passengers, while the number of people using domestic routes fell by 5 per cent to 870,000.
The DAA said yesterday that a record 23.5 million passengers used Dublin airport last year, an increase of 1 per cent on 2007.
Passenger traffic rose by 5 per cent in the first half of the year, but declined by 3 per cent between July and December as the effects of the global credit crunch, rising fuel prices and the economic downturn here took hold.
Passenger numbers declined in each of the last four months of 2008. "Given the current economic climate, the outlook for 2009 remains difficult, and passenger numbers at Dublin airport are expected to decline in line with the contraction in Irish GDP," the DAA said.
Traffic to the UK declined last year by 1 per cent to 8.6 million passengers, while the number of people using domestic routes fell by 5 per cent to 870,000.
My original source was Wikipedia - this is the best other source I have found, but it doesn't give a separate breakdown for London notes from no w here
There are approximately 50 daily departures from Dublin to all five London airports (Stansted, Luton, Gatwick, Heathrow and London City), The Dublin-London route is the second busiest route in the world after the Hong Kong-Taipei route.
During the 1980s, major competition, especially on the Dublin-London routes, resulted in passenger numbers swelling to 5.1 million in 1989.
Top 10 International Arrivals Figures for 2008. Rank Origin Number of Passengers 1 London Heathrow Airport, England, United Kingdom 894,536 2 London Gatwick Airport, England, United Kingdom 541,593 3 London Stansted Airport, England, United Kingdom 462,756
Rank Origin Number of Passengers 1 London Heathrow Airport, England, United Kingdom 894,536 2 London Gatwick Airport, England, United Kingdom 541,593 3 London Stansted Airport, England, United Kingdom 462,756
Conclusions: the Eurostar figures count both departing and arriving passengers, otherwise the Heathrow figures for 2008 would be way off between different sources. The total Dublin-London traffic is over twice that for Dublin-Heathrow and it probably does exceed the Madrid-Barcelona traffic but it didn't in 2007 (Madrid-Barcelona was 33% higher a year earlier).
100 passengers per flight is a better average than 200 at least for the Dublin-London distance range. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Perhaps the "second busiest route in the world" only applies to international routes? notes from no w here
Surely you mean DDA and Wikipedia (Irish Sea Tunnel article) figures. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I mean Eurostat, of course. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
