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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2020-05-18more like thismore than 2020-05-18
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Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Aviation more like this
house id 1 more like this
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pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) flights of private non-scheduled aircraft and (b) individuals, including crew members, landed at UK airfields from 1 January 2020 to 18 May 2020; how many and what proportion of those flights were categorised as (i) private / general aviation, (ii) cargo, (iii) military and (iv) other; and what the five most common points of departure were for those flights. more like this
tabling member constituency Cardiff South and Penarth more like this
tabling member printed
Stephen Doughty remove filter
uin 48464 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2020-06-02more like thismore than 2020-06-02
answer text <p>I have been asked by the Department for Transport to respond to this question</p><p>Monitoring of flight traffic conducted by Eurocontrol shows that between 01 January 2020 and 30 April 2020 there were 14,225 aircraft arrivals at UK airports. An estimated categorisation of these aircraft arrivals based on Eurocontrol’s identification rules are provided in the table below. This data source does not provide information about the aircrafts’ point of departure or information about passengers or crew on board.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Aircraft category</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated proportion</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tradition Scheduled</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Cost</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Charter</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business Aviation</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All-Cargo</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on passenger numbers are officially collected by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and received from applicable UK airports in adherence to statistical regulation (EC) 437/2003 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air. However, this data collection relates to commercial aircraft movements only.</p>
answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup more like this
answering member printed James Brokenshire more like this
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less than 2020-06-02T16:25:04.247Zmore like thismore than 2020-06-02T16:25:04.247Z
answering member
1530
label Biography information for James Brokenshire more like this
tabling member
4264
label Biography information for Stephen Doughty more like this