The UK Airline industry is a huge industry for the United kingdom, it is important that we remember that it is not only tourism and passenger flights that we are talking about when we say the airline industry it involves all the shipping and import/exports that enter and leave the country by air, BATA say " Goods worth £116 billion are shipped between the UK non EU countries representing 35% of the UK's extra EU trade by value"
The UK is a nation that is able to fly passengers anywhere in the world and also to import and export goods all over the world as well, this proves that the sheer size of the industry is massive, the CAA says " In the past 20 years passenger numbers at UK airports have grown from 104 million in 1990 to 213 million in 2010, having fallen from 242 million in the 2007 peak as a result of the financial crisis and economic downturn" these figures are massive considering the very small size of the UK and if we look at the details, BA was the sixth highest airline in terms of number of passengers in 2010 beaten only by Emirates, Air France, Easy Jet , Lufthansa and Ryan Air ( ASC June 26, 2011) , however Easy Jet and Ryan Air have huge stakes in the UK airline market and operate mainly within the UK's airports. the scope of the industry is very limited in the sense that the industry only caters to tourism and domestic holiday needs as well as importing and exporting goods, however within the export and export sector the scope is huge, with the airlines being able to import and export any kind of good from any region of the world. and the trade with EU countries alone is averaging 17 billion a month from the start of 2013, (HM Revenues and customs) these figures are huge and obviously contribute generously to the UK's funds with every item entering or leaving the borders being taxed.
When we look in terms of Growth,
