Aviation: Caribbean

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) flights and (b) passengers travelled from the UK to destinations in the Caribbean in each of the last five years. (283827)

The following table shows the number of flights and passengers who departed from UK airports to destinations in the Caribbean in each of the last five years.

*Flights and passengers from UK airports to destinations in the Caribbean, 2004-08*
Thousand
	Flights	Passengers
2004	3.9	947
2005	3.9	914
2006	4.1	951
2007	4.0	974
2008	3.8	974
Source: Department for Transport analysis of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data.

Total passenger flows between UK airports and individual countries are published on the CAA website in table 12.1 at the following link:

http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=80&pagetype=88&pageid=3&sglid=3

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 8 July 2009