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UK air traffic increase continues through August

NATS safely handled 240,672 flights in August, an increase of almost 5% on the same month last year.

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Fastest growing markets were Turkey, up 15% on August 2023 and the Canary Islands, up 12%. Routes to Spain, France and Italy continued to be the most popular overall. Transatlantic overflights also continued to grow in August, by more than 11% year on year.

NATS handled 24% of Europe’s traffic, according to Eurocontrol, and was accountable for just 1.3% of overall delay. Ninety-eight per cent of flights received no NATS-attributable delay; the average delay per delayed flight was 13.5 minutes.

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Kathryn Leahy, Chief Operations Officer, said: “We are now very close to the record levels of traffic we had in 2019 and at some points in the day, parts of the network are exceeding those previous levels.

“I think we can safely say that we will soon be into new record figures and comparisons with pre-pandemic traffic firmly in the past.”

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