British Airports Authority says its seven UK airports handled 9.3 million passengers in November, up 14.3 per cent on the same month last year.
Last month's passenger numbers are a 2.2 per cent improvement on November 2000.
North Atlantic traffic saw the largest year on year gains, recording an increase of 21.4 per cent on November 2001.
However, the North Atlantic market was worst affected by the events of September 11th and was 10.3 per cent below November 2000 levels.
Traffic to other long haul markets was also hit by the attacks and whilst showing a 12.7 per cent increase on November 2001, remains down by 1.5 per cent on November 2000 levels.
Domestic and European scheduled markets were respectively 14.3 per cent and 14.9 per cent ahead of November 2001, and 5.3 per cent and 5.5 per cent up on November 2000.
European charter traffic was 12.4 per cent higher than November 2001 and 8.6 per cent higher than November 2000.
PA