The pie charts illustrate the travel purposes British people made in four different airports (Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted and Luton) in 2016. Reasons are split into 4 different groups, including Holiday, Visiting friends/family, Business and Other.
Overall, all airports’ costumers have their highest purpose on visiting to their close people, except Gatwick airport (with Holiday). In addition, the lowest share has been recorded in different purposes for all four of the airports.
Luton Airport documented that half of their customers took a flight because of the desire of visiting to their friends or family. Almost the same statistics had been recorded in Stansted Airport (48%). Heathrow and Gatwick airports registered with 37% and 30%, respectively. Apart from Heathrow airport (4%), all the other airports had 2% of users that booked a flight for different purposes.
Highest record in Holiday vacations is given in Gatwick airport with little more than half of the share (54%). Other companies have lower statistics, including 36% in Stansted, 35% in Luton and 33% in Heathrow airports. For business flights, Heathrow airport dominated the section with 26% and Luton airport stood at the bottom of the list with only 13%. Stansted and Gatwick airports had same share with 14%.