AUSTRALIA. Healthy growth from Asian markets helped lift November passenger traffic results at Sydney Airport, majority shareholder Map Airports has reported.
Total traffic dipped by -1.4% to 2.99 million, with domestic volumes down by -2.8%. But international traffic still posted growth, climbing by +1.8% year-on-year to 947,000.
Australia was the major market that grew (+4%), together with Indonesia (+20%), China (+10%), India (+8%), Malaysia (+5%) and New Zealand (+4%). Korea (-13%), Germany (-7%), the UK (-5%), Canada (-5%), France (-5%) and Japan (-4%) were the major markets that declined.
In other route and airline news at Sydney, Scoot Airlines, Singapore Airlines’ new low cost subsidiary, has chosen Sydney as its inaugural destination from mid-2012.
MAp and Sydney Airport CEO Kerrie Mather said: “Sydney Airport continues to see very pleasing growth in key Asian emerging markets, including China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. In addition, Australian international outbound growth continued.
“During the month, Sydney Airport signed a partnership agreement with Destination NSW which will focus on boosting tourism, attracting new airlines and increasing airline services. The agreement signals both parties’ commitment to focus airline marketing efforts with a new level of cooperation and commitment.
“The benefit that the partnership can provide for the airport and the NSW economy is demonstrated by Scoot Airlines’ announcement that Sydney will be the airline’s inaugural destination in mid-2012. We look forward to welcoming Scoot to Sydney, Australia’s premier gateway, next year.”
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