Snow fall in passengers

EDINBURGH Airport saw 50,000 fewer passengers last month due to bad weather.

The airport recorded a near four per cent fall in passengers in November, compared with the same month last year.

Airport group BAA today said bad weather hit passenger numbers by 130,000 across all its UK airports as it battled the "worst snow for decades". Passenger numbers fell at Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

The east of Scotland was badly hit by snow, as Edinburgh lost 50,000 passengers, bringing numbers down by 3.9 per cent and Aberdeen lost 15,000, bringing its total down 1.9 per cent. Traffic at Glasgow was down 0.8 per cent.

Edinburgh Airport was closed for much of last week as workers battled to clear tonnes of snow from the runway