Both major London Airports show passenger growth last month

London's two major airports have just published their statistics for March 2015 with both showing significant increases in the numbers of passengers handled.

Heathrow airport reports its busiest ever March with a total of 5.95 million passengers, and increase of 3.4% over March 2014. Part of the increase is attributed to an earlier Easter holiday than in 2014. Larger, fuller & quieter aircraft are driving part of the growth with passengers per aircraft rising 3.2% to 151.3.  To read more from Heathrow click here.

Gatwick Airport expects to reach the milestone of handling 40 million passengers in 2016, 10 years ahead of the predictions made in the January 2013 UK Aviation Forecast.  Last month Gatwick handled 2.96 million passengers, and increase of 9.2% over March 2014.  Understandably Gatwick is using the results to bolster its case for a second runway at the Sussex terminal. To read more from Gatwick click here.

Pic: Heathrow Airport

92% of Ryanair flights arrive on time last month

Europe's favourite airline, Ryanair has just published its customer service statistics for March 2015.

Results are generally on a par with March 2014 with 92% of flights arriving on time, and 99% of customer complaints answered within 7 days.

However complaints per 1000 passengers increased by 17% to 0.47, and bag complaints per 1000 passengers by 38% to 0.50.

To read more from Ryanair click here.

For Ryanair size cabin luggage click here.

Pic: Ryanair

Easyjet posts improved passenger numbers and load factor

Budget airline easyJet has published its passenger statistics for March 2015

Passenger numbers for the month increased by 7.5% over March 2014 to a total of 5,490,337.  Its load factor increased from 91.55 to 92.6%

On a rolling annual basis easyJet's passenger numbers for the year ended 31 March 2015 increased by 6.7% to an annualised total of 65,991,212

To read more click here.

For cabin baggage for your next easyJet flight click here.

Easyjet plane in new 2015 livery. Pic: Easyjet

Impressive performance from Ryanair last month

Ryanair, Europe's favourite airline, has just published passenger statistics for March 2015.

The airline has shown a  massive 28% increase in passenger numbers to 6.67 million for the month over March 2014, and an impressive 10% increase in its load factor to 90%.

Rolling annual passenger numbers for the year ended 31 March 2015 showed an 11% increase to 90.5 million.

To read more from Ryanair click here.

For cabin luggage for your next Ryanair flight click here.

Ryanair aircraft. Pic Ryanair