Note: Sea travel includes the Channel Tunnel from 1995.
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1998 |
Coverage: United Kingdom
Source: ONS, DfT
- Overseas flights by UK residents more than quadrupled between 1980 and 2002, and visits to the UK by air more than doubled.
- Although air travel by UK residents has continued to increase significantly since 1998, the number of overseas visitors to the UK by air was 2 per cent lower in 2002 than in 1998, partly due to the aftermath of the 11th September terrorist attacks.