The pie charts illustrate the percentages of travel purposes for passengers taking flights four various airports in the UK in 2016.
Overall, it is imperative to recognize that the holiday and visiting friends and family made up the biggest sections in all graphs while the smallest ones were business and other purposes. Notably, business sector comprised virtually the same proportion in all airports apart from at Heathrow Airport.
In terms of holiday purposes, the highest percentage was 54% in Gatwick whereas the lowest in this sector could be seen in Heathrow by 33%. At the rest airports, this rates were 35% and 36%. As for visiting family and friends, the percentages were 30%, 37%, 50% and 48% at Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted, respectively.
Regarding the business section, it accounted for around 14% at Luton, Gatwick and Stansted. However, if we look at Heathrow, it was double this rates, which means 28%. Other reasons were 2% and 4% at four different airports.