Airport delays may be driving more people to take ferry holidays. Nearly 43m passenger ferry journeys were taken to and from British ports last year, an increase of 419,000 on the 2006 total. This was the second successive year that numbers rose and followed falls in the early years of this decade, the Passenger Shipping Association (PSA) said. UK to Ireland routes did particularly well, with numbers rising 4.3% to 5.5m journeys. PSA director Bill Gibbons said increasing numbers of people were turning away from airports due to continued strike threats, missing luggage and airline charges.