Airport soars over Heathrow

EDINBURGH Airport has overtaken Heathrow for the proportion of passengers who are wealthy business travellers.

According to figures from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), 65.5 per cent of business passengers using Edinburgh Airport were from the affluent A/B social group, compared to 64.3 per cent at Heathrow.

The figures were published as part of the CAA's 2009 Air Passenger Survey, which questioned over 200,000 departing air passengers.