The pie charts show the aims of travel for visitors using four separate UK airports in the year 2016.
Overall, visiting friends and family had the largest shares of travelers in three out of four airports, while holiday contributed the highest share in only Gatwick airport, with business and other reasons never being the highest.
While the figures for visiting friends and family ranked first, ranging from 37% to 50% in Heathrow, Stansted, and Luton airports, respectively, those for holiday came second with an average of 34%. On the other hand, the proportions of business were almost half as large as holiday except in Heathrow airport (26%) with other purposes of travel accounting for the smallest contributions.
In contrast, holiday formed the most significant share of passengers with a staggering 54% in Gatwick airport, followed by visiting friends and family, which was smaller by 24%. Whereas the business sector ranked third with 14% and the remaining 2% was allocated to other intensions.