The pie charts illustrate the purposes of travel for passengers at four UK airports—Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton, and Stansted—in 2016. The data is categorized into three main reasons: holiday, business, and visiting friends or family, with a small percentage classified as “other.”
Overall, the majority of travelers at all four airports flew for either holiday or visiting friends and family, while business travel accounted for a smaller proportion. Gatwick Airport had the highest percentage of holiday travelers, making up 54% of passengers, whereas Luton Airport had the largest share of people traveling to visit friends and family (50%).
Business travel was most significant at Heathrow Airport, where it comprised 26% of passengers, which is notably higher than at the other airports (ranging from 13% to 14%). Additionally, Heathrow had the highest percentage of “other” purposes at 4%, while the other three airports had only 2%.
In conclusion, while each airport had a unique distribution of travel purposes, holiday travel remained the most common reason overall, except at Heathrow, where visiting family and business travel were more balanced.