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The table highlights data on the number of travellers using three major british airports between 1998 and 2003.

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The table illustrates data about the number of people travelling through the British airports,
Heathrow
, Gatwick and Stansted, over a period of
six-years
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 between 1998 and 2003.
Overall
, what stands out from the data is that the Gatwick
airport
 and the Stansted showed only upward trends in
the
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passenger traffic,
whereas
 the
Heathrow
 saw both increasing and decreasing trends in the given period. Another interesting point is that the
Gatwik
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Gatwick
airport
 served more
visitors
 at the start and
at the
end
 of the period. Looking at the
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, as regards
to
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the
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Heathrow
airport
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, the number of
visitors
 in 1998 was 27.2
million
, and
then
 the traffic increased gradually reaching 48.2
million
 by the
end
 of 2000, which is
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 in the year 2000 among all the airports mentioned.
Following
this
, over the next two years, the
airport
 recorded a significant decline in
the
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visitors
 reaching 33.2
million
 in 2002.
Finally
, it increased rapidly to reach 45.6
million
at the
end
. If we look at
the
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Stansted
airport
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 the trend was similar to
the
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Heathrow
 until 2001
where
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 it was used by 47.3
million
 people. At
this
 point, despite having a growth of over 25
million
 in the starting four years, it remained unchanged at 47.3
million
 for two years till the
end
.
By contrast
,
the
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Gatwick
airport
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 recorded 36.5
million
 passengers in 1998 and attracted more
visitors
 gradually till 2002, but
this
 was followed by a rapid growth of passenger traffic in 2003 from 51.1
million
 to 69.3
million
 in one year.
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