UK Airspace traffic down 8.9% in September

if you have ever seen those really cool videos from Skies over Britain - you will know that the UK Airspace is one of the most busy skies in the world. Not only from the internally generated traffic but all the cross Atlantic traffic usually touches UK airspace.

Anyway - the traffic despite such things as Open Skies and a significant increase in LCC traffic - total traffic is down 2.1% with a significant drop in transatlantic which is down 8.9% according to the UK privatized Air Traffic Control company NATS.

http://www.nats.co.uk/article/216/257/further_slowdown_in_air_traffic.html

Hmmm... these are real data points folks.

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