ROBIN hood Airport has the highest proportion of passengers travelling for leisure - and the highest proportion of women passengers, according to a new survey.
The Civil Aviation Authority 2007 Air Passenger Survey questioned departing air passengers at Robin Hood Airport, as well as the four London airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton) and Humberside, Liverpool and Manchester airports, about the
ir travel patterns.
At 24 per cent Robin Hood had the lowest proportion of passengers travelling alone. This compares with 60 per cent at Stansted, 42 per cent at Gatwick, and 34 per cent at Humberside. Heathrow, at 66 per cent, had a highest proportion of passengers travelling alone.
On average, Robin Hood also had the joint oldest passengers, at 47, equal to Humberside. Liverpool and Stansted passengers were joint youngest, with an average age of 39.
The proportion of passengers changing planes was significantly smaller at the regional airports surveyed, with less than one per cent of passengers changing planes at Robin Hood and Humberside. This compared with around 34 per cent at Heathrow, 12 per cent at Gatwick, eight per cent at Stansted, four per cent at Luton, three per cent at Manchester and one per cent at Liverpool.
This is the first time that Robin Hood Airport has been part of the survey. In total the survey questioned over 210,000 departing passengers across the eight airports.
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