Aviation

(asked on 15th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of domestic passenger flight routes in operation in the UK that would take less than two and a half hours to complete by train.


Answered by
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Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 20th April 2021

UK domestic air routes with more than 1,000 passengers in 2019 that are within a two-and-a-half-hour range by train, as well as the number of passenger journeys on these routes in 2019, are presented in the table below.

Departure airport

Arrival airport

Domestic passengers

Heathrow

Manchester

283,063

Manchester

Heathrow

270,044

Heathrow

Leeds Bradford

50,930

Leeds Bradford

Heathrow

48,953

Exeter

London City

17,307

London City

Exeter

15,007

Manchester

London City

1,862

London City

Manchester

1,325

The Department holds data on passenger numbers on a direct basis only. Rail journey times on routes between these cities can be variable between services and train operators, so some services could take longer than the indicative two-and-a-half-hour threshold used here.

Data on passenger movements on all UK domestic routes for 2019 are published by the Civil Aviation Authority on their website in table 12.2.

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