Record numbers use BAA airports as North Atlantic travel takes off again

BRITISH airports operator BAA said yesterday a record 133.4 million passengers used its seven sites during the last financial year.

The annual figure, which was almost six million higher than a year earlier, included a 10.4% rise in traffic for March at 10.8 million passengers.

Last month’s performance was helped by a weak comparison with a year earlier when confidence was dented by the outbreak of war in Iraq.