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The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has released a report showing that the number of people travelling to and from the UK to visit friends and relatives (VFR) between 2000 and 2007 increased by more than three quarters.
During the same period, the total number of passengers travelling to and from the UK increased by only a third.
Overall, VFR traffic increased to nearly 45m in 2007 at the UK"s nine largest international airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham.
Spain saw the highest growth in this market in 2007 with an extra 3m passengers taking trips to see friends or loved ones, followed by Poland with an increase of over 2m.
Harry Bush, the CAA"s director of economic regulation, said: "Today, more UK residents than ever before are likely to have friends or relatives overseas – and more people overseas have links into the UK.
"Air travel has played a key role in enabling this development, principally through deregulation of aviation and the subsequent emergence of low-cost air travel with more point-to-point routings."
The CAA welcomed the recent government announcement that the authority was to be given a new "primary duty" to put the needs of passengers at the centre of its approach to airport regulation.
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