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

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The table illustrates the rankings of airports in terms of most passengers in Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted over a five-year
period
.
Overall
, what stands out from the table is that all three airports experienced a relative rise in the
amount
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of travellers.
Af
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for, Gatwick airport reached by far the most passengers throughout the
period
.
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Stansted airport, it saw a significant upward for the first three years of the
period
after that, the
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levelled off and remained the same between 2001 and 2003. If we look at Heathrow
airport
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, from 1998 to 2000 the
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grew sharply, rocketing to 48.2 million. Despite falling rapidly, the
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experienced a remarkable increase once again in 2003.
On the other hand
, the
amount
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of passengers in Gatwick was the highest from the beginning of the
period
. Looking at the
deatails
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details
, the
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experienced a moderate rise each year, which meant that the
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was well over twice as high as the first place during the
period
.
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