The table compares the number of tourists choosing three different British airports namely Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted from 1998 to 2003.
Overall, the most striking feature of the chart is that all the airports witnessed an upward trend in the number of travellers, however; there was a slight fluctuation in the figure for Heathrow Airport. Besides, it is also worth pointing out that Gatwick Airport was selected to travel by more people than the remaining categories.
Stansted Airport, which had the lowest number of visitors at 7.3 millions in 1998, saw a remarkable increase in the following two years to 39.9 millions. Afterward, the data remained stable in the last three years of the timeline at 43.3 millions. Likewise, there was a wild growth in the number of travellers using Gatwick Aiport from 36.5 to 69.3 million in half the decades, though its beginning point doubled that of Stansted and the data in total is the highest among the three categories.
The number of tourists choosing Heathrow Airport showed instability when the figure was recorded at 27.2 million in 1998, then dropped from 48.2 in 2000 to just 33.2 million in 2002 before it ended the period at 45.6 million.