European
airports welcomed 3.5% more passengers during November
Brussels, 7 January 2014: European airport trade body, ACI EUROPE today released its traffic results for the month of November across the European airport network. The overall passenger traffic growth at Europe’s airport reported an increase of +3.5% compared to November 2012.
EU airports showed an increase averaging +2.2%, while passenger traffic at non-EU airports reported an average increase of +8.4%, when compared with the same month in the preceding year.
In
line with recent months, most non-EU airports posted very dynamic growth, while
EU airports reported mixed results. Airports in Ireland, Malta and Portugal
enjoyed significant growth, along with many in Eastern Europe. Spanish airports
continued to see improving performance and many in the UK and the Benelux also
posted positive figures. However, passenger traffic was generally disappointing
in France, Germany, Italy and Austria - as well as in Greece and
Cyprus.
Aircraft
movements for the whole of Europe reported an increase of +0.4%, while
freight reported a welcome robust result of +5.4%.
Airports
welcoming more than 25 million passengers per year (Group 1), airports welcoming
between 10 and 25million passengers (Group 2), airports welcoming between 5 and
10 million passengers (Group 3) and airports welcoming less than 5 million
passengers per year (Group 4) reported an average adjustment of +2.1%, +4.3%,
+5.3% and +4.5%
respectively
when compared with November 2012.
Airports
that experienced the highest increases in passenger traffic per group, when
comparing November 2013 with November 2012 were:
GROUP
1 Airports –
Moscow SVO (+10.9%), Istanbul IST (+7.6%), Antalya (+6.1%),
Barcelona BCN (+4.5%) & London LGW (+4.2%)
GROUP
2 Airports -
Istanbul SAW (+44.4%), St Petersburg (+14.8%), Gran Canaria
(+13.5%), Malaga (+12.2%) & Dublin (+6.7%)
GROUP
3 Airports –
Catania (64.6%), Lanzarote (+21.3%), Ankara
(+20.6%), Warsaw WAW (+19.1%) & Alicante
(+14.4%)
GROUP
4 Airports -
Vatry (+117.4%), Tampere (+46.9%), Kaunas
(+45.2%), Chambery (+28.3%) & Rome CIA
(+27.9%)
The
'ACI EUROPE Airport Traffic Report – November 2013’ includes 181 airports in
total representing approximately 88% of European air passenger traffic.
ENDS
The ACI
EUROPE Airport Traffic Report is a dedicated service for journalists available
in the password protected ‘Airport Traffic Report’ section of the ‘Media room’
on our website www.aci-europe.org.
Accredited members of the media may also access additional traffic analysis and
comprehensive traffic databases. For your password to access these sections,
please contact us by e-mail at: communique@aci-europe.org. Your
request will be validated and the password will be e-mailed to your work
address.
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For
more information, please contact:
Robert
O’Meara,
Director, Media & Communications, ACI EUROPE at
website:
www.aci-europe.org
ACI
EUROPE is the European region of Airports Council International, the only
worldwide professional association of airport operators. ACI EUROPE represents
over 450 airports in 44 European countries. Member airports handle 90% of
commercial air traffic in Europe, welcoming over 1.5 billion passengers, 18
million tonnes of freight and more than 20 million aircraft movements each
year.
EVERY
FLIGHT BEGINS AT THE AIRPORT.
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