Memorandum by the Civil Aviation Authority,
Economic Regulation Group (AS 05)
Table 5B
UK-US PASSENGERS CONNECTING AT US GATEWAY
BY AIRLINE, 1998
| Passengers | BA
| Virgin | UK Airlines
| American | Continental
| Delta | Northwest
| TWA | United
| US Airways | US Airlines
| Total |
| Total UK-US | 6,499,887
| 2,557,472 | 9,057,360
| 2,018,446 | 557,820
| 454,421 | 338,502
| 159,169 | 1,741,696
| 101,324 | 5,371,377
| 14,428,737 |
| Terminating | 5,839,012
| 2,337,133 | 8,176,145
| 1,221,927 | 253,667
| 130,518 | 150,744
| 62,627 | 1,018,150
| 25,889 | 2,863,522
| 11,039,668 |
| Connecting | 660,875
| 220,339 | 881,214
| 796,519 | 304,153
| 323,903 | 187,758
| 96,542 | 723,545
| 75,435 | 2,507,855
| 3,389,069 |
| US Domestic | 518,175
| 155,949 | 674,124
| 676,525 | 253,446
| 311,347 | 182,952
| 89,073 | 678,786
| 75,254 | 2,267,383
| 2,941,506 |
| Other | 142,700
| 64,390 | 207,091
| 119,994 | 50,707
| 12,556 | 4,806
| 7,469 | 44,759
| 181 | 240,472
| 447,563 |
| Shares |
| Terminating | 90%
| 91% | 90%
| 61% | 45%
| 29% | 45%
| 39% | 58%
| 26% | 53%
| 77% |
| Connecting | 10%
| 9% | 10%
| 39% | 55%
| 71% | 55%
| 61% | 42%
| 74% | 47%
| 23% |
| US Domestic | 8%
| 6% | 7%
| 34% | 45%
| 69% | 54%
| 56% | 39%
| 74% | 42%
| 20% |
| Other | 2%
| 3% | 2%
| 6% | 9%
| 3% | 1%
| 5% | 3%
| 0% | 4%
| 3% |
Source: CAA Survey.
Note: Figures are based on passenger interviews on flights
departing from London to the US and it is assumed that passengers
on arriving flights have the same characteristics.
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