Facts about UK commercial flights
- More than 200 million passengers pass through UK airports each year
- There are over 750,000 scheduled flights each year in and out of the UK
- In 2010, around 10 million visits to see friends or relatives abroad were made by air
- The UK is connected to 400 airports in 114 countries
- A total of 2.5 billion passengers and approximately 50 million tonnes of freight are flown worldwide annually