INTERNATIONAL SKIES: United Kingdom

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

SCHEDULED INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES IN UNITED KINGDOM (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

144,121

(-2.1) %

21,826,542

(-3.6) %

1983

145,038

0.6 %

21,613,405

(-1.0) %

1984

149,716

3.2 %

23,251,718

7.6 %

1985

162,432

8.5 %

25,437,990

9.4 %

1986

177,298

9.2 %

27,344,975

7.5 %

1987

199,131

12.3 %

30,278,568

10.7 %

1988

229,312

15.2 %

34,039,307

12.4 %

1989

252,380

10.1 %

36,784,096

8.1 %

1990

279,050

10.6 %

40,302,572

9.6 %

1991

279,977

0.3 %

41,054,371

1.9 %

1992

297,768

6.4 %

44,248,326

7.8 %

1993

304,560

2.3 %

46,108,242

4.2 %

1994

332,742

9.3 %

49,626,741

7.6 %

1995

349,786

5.1 %

52,579,046

5.9 %

1996

379,014

8.4 %

56,423,315

7.3 %

1997

404,616

6.8 %

61,425,915

8.9 %

1998

434,600

7.4 %

67,437,200

9.8 %

1999

477,408

9.8 %

73,477,766

9.0 %

2000

514,603

7.8 %

78,478,391

6.8 %

2001

530,411

3.1 %

80,554,815

2.6 %

2002

509,280

(-4.0) %

76,728,149

(-4.8) %

2003

533,604

4.8 %

83,762,700

9.2 %

2004

562,593

5.4 %

90,390,611

7.9 %

2005

603,733

7.3 %

98,595,959

9.1 %

2006

625,951

3.7 %

103,622,225

5.1 %

2007

690,462

10.3 %

115,663,184

11.6 %

2008

678,267

(-1.8) %

114,339,238

(-1.1) %

2009

630,499

(-7.0) %

107,914,466

(-5.6) %

2010

634,745

0.7 %

109,439,657

1.4 %

2011

652,391

2.8 %

113,279,922

3.5 %

2012

634,155

(-2.1) %

110,582,937

(-3.6) %

Richard Maslen

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