To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the projected change in numbers of flights (a) to and (b) from Newcastle Airport by 2018 is; what percentage of flights through Newcastle Airport were domestic in the latest period for which figures are available; and what percentage she expects to be domestic in 2018. (211342)

CAA's airport statistics show that the domestic share of terminal passengers at Newcastle in 2007 was 30 per cent.

The most recent Department for Transport forecasts of passenger demand at UK airports were reported in 'UK Air Passenger Demand and CO2 Forecasts', November 2007, available at:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/aviation/environmentalissues/ukairdemandandco2forecasts/.

Table G5 shows the central forecast of terminal passengers at Newcastle airport in 2015 and 2030, split between domestic, short-haul, and long-haul, along with outturn for 2005. Owing to the tolerance with which the iterative forecasting model works, detailed results are rounded and presented at no less than five-yearly intervals. These are repeated in the following table.