EUROPE. Airports within the European Union continued to suffer from a decline in passenger traffic in November, according to the latest figures from ACI Europe.
For a second successive month, a so-called “˜two-speed Europe’ was evident, with EU airports recording a -1.3% year-on-year decrease, while non-EU airports saw an average +8.2% increase. This resulted in overall growth of just +0.6%.
This follows a +0.5% year-on-year increase in October, when EU airports recorded a decrease of -1.3%, while non-EU airports saw an average +7.8% increase, as reported.
Airports welcoming more than 25 million passengers per year (Group 1) reported an average increase of +1.0% in November, with airports welcoming between 10 and 25 million passengers (Group 2) reporting growth of +2.2%.
Meanwhile, airports with between five and ten million passengers (Group 3) and less than five million passengers per year (Group 4) reported -0.5% and -2.6% declines respectively.
Airports that experienced the highest increase in passenger traffic per group, when comparing November 2012 with November 2011, included:
GROUP 1 airports – Istanbul Ataturk (+18.7%), Moscow Domodedovo (+12.5%), Antalya (+4.9%), London Gatwick (+4.3%) and London Heathrow (+3.1%)
GROUP 2 airports – Moscow Sheremetyevo (+12.8%), Nice (+12.0%), Geneva (+9.5%), Manchester (+8.7%) and Berlin Tegel (+8.6%)
GROUP 3 airports – Bucharest (+43.1%), Faro (+14.7%), St Petersburg (+11.5%), Toulouse (+10.4%) and Charleroi (+9.8%)
GROUP 4 airports – Arad (+6,910.0%), Bournemouth (+74.9%), Chita (+40.1%), Vilnius (+30.7%) and Keflavik (+25.0%)
Aircraft movements at European airports continued to report a firmly negative figure of -3.6%, reflecting the reluctance of airlines to add capacity at the start of the winter season, ACI Europe said.
The figures cover 173 airports, representing over 88% of European passenger traffic, according to the organisation.
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