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EU airport traffic growth more than double Non-EU rate during H1
Brussels, 5 August 2015: European airport trade body, ACI EUROPE
today released its traffic report for June, Q2 and H1 2015. The report is
the only air transport report which includes all types of civil aviation
passenger flights: network, low cost, charter and others.
From January to end June this year, passenger traffic at Europe’s airport
grew by +4.5%. Freight traffic across the European airport network grew
by +0.5%. Aircraft movements were up +2.0%, reflecting additional
airline capacity in the market.
Olivier Jankovec, Director General of ACI EUROPE said “The first half
of this year has seen solid passenger traffic growth for the European
airport industry. However, where as recently as 18 months ago Non-EU
airports were propping up weaker passenger traffic growth at EU airports,
we are now through the looking glass. The situation has flipped and EU
airports now lead the growth – reporting +5.1% during the first half of the
year, compared with +2.3% at Non-EU airports.”
He added “This reversed trend in passenger traffic growth is likely to stay
for the rest of the year, mainly due to continued weakness in the Russian
economy as well as the impact of lower oil prices on the Norwegian
economy. Meanwhile, EU economies keep improving, in particular with the
former bailed out economies of Ireland, Spain and Portugal surging ahead.
Geopolitical instability and renewed terrorist threats in North Africa are also
redirecting some leisure traffic to EU destinations. As for freight, the
situation in Russia as well as slower growth in emerging markets is likely to
keep constraining traffic performance.”
For the first half of 2015, airports welcoming more than 25 million
passengers per year (Group 1), airports welcoming between 10 and 25
million 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 +3.0%,
+5.5%, +6.3% and +5.5%.
During H1 2015, the airports which reported the highest increases in
passenger traffic are as follows:
GROUP 1: Madrid (+11.4%) Istanbul IST (+6.4%),
London LGW (+5.4%), Amsterdam (+5.0%) and Barcelona (+4.8%)
GROUP 2: Athens (+23.3%), London STN (+16.9%),
Istanbul SAW (+16.6%), Dublin (+15.1%) and Lisbon (+13.0%)
GROUP 3: Milan BGY (+32.1%), Porto (+16.8%), Glasgow (+13.8%),
Bucharest OTP (+12.6%) and Budapest (+11.8%)
GROUP 4: Santorini (+33.2%), Sibiu (+32.3%), Cluj (+30.5%),
Astrakhan (+29.5%) and Ponta Delgada (+29.1%)
JUNE FIGURES
During the month of June, passenger traffic was up 3.2%, while freight
was up 3.0% and movements reported +2.4%.
Airports welcoming more than 25 million passengers per year (Group 1),
airports welcoming between 10 and 25 million 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 +2.1%, +4.0%, +4.2% and +3.3%.
For June, the airports which reported the highest increases in passenger
traffic are as follows:
GROUP 1: Madrid (+11.3%), Istanbul IST (+6.5%),
Amsterdam (+5.8%), London LGW (+5.2%), Frankfurt & Munich (+2.8%)
GROUP 2: Athens (+21.9%), Dublin (+18.0%), Lisbon (+12.7%),
Istanbul SAW (+12.3%) and London STN (+11.0%)
GROUP 3: Porto OPO (+18.5%), Milan BGY (+14.5%),
Glasgow (+14.1%), Berlin SXF (+11.9%) and Budapest (+11.8%)
GROUP 4: Chambery (+316.7%), Chisinau (+38.8%),
Ohrid (+31.6%), Ponta Delgada (+31.1%) and Astrakhan (+30.0%)
The 'ACI EUROPE Airport Traffic Report – June, Q2 & H1’ includes 211
airports in total representing more than 88% of European air passenger
traffic.
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
http://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:
maria.karananou@aci-europe.org. Your request will be
validated and the password will be e-mailed to your work address.
For more information, please contact:
Robert O’Meara, Director, Media & Communications, ACI EUROPE
mobile: +32 (0)486 54 14 71 or tel: +32 (0)2 552 09 82.
Email:
robert.omeara@aci-europe.orgACI EUROPE is the European region of Airports Council International (ACI),
the only worldwide professional association of airport operators. ACI
EUROPE represents more than 460 airports in 45 European countries. In
2013, our member airports handled over 90% of commercial air traffic in
Europe, welcoming more than 1.7 billion passengers, 16.8 million tonnes of
freight and 20.8 million aircraft movements.
EVERY FLIGHT BEGINS AT THE AIRPORT.