EUROPE. Overall passenger traffic among European airports increased by +8.3% in July 2004 when compared with July 2003.
Some examples of airports that experienced a significant increase in traffic, when comparing July 2004 with July 2003, included:
• Group 1 airports – Rome Fiumicino (+9.8%), London Heathrow (+7.8), and Madrid Barajas (+6.5%);
• Group 2 airports – Vienna (+17.7%), Munich (+14.5%), and Düsseldorf (+13.2%);
• Group 3 airports – Moscow Domodedovo (+31.2%), Prague (+27.4%) and Helsinki (+15.5%);
• Group 4 airports – Girona (+69.9%), Riga (+55.0%) and Vilnius (+49.4%).
Passenger figures for July 2004 demonstrate that once again Group 4 airports (airports welcoming less than five million passengers per year) had the largest increase in traffic – with an average increase of +11.1% when
compared with July 2003.
A comparison of July 2004 and July 2002 demonstrates an average increase of +18.4%. In July 2004, airports welcoming more than 25 million passengers per year (Group 1), airports welcoming between 10 and 25 million passengers (Group 2) and airports welcoming between 5 and 10 million passengers (Group 3) reported an average increase of +6.7%, +9.2% and +8.1% respectively when compared with July 2003.
The same comparison of July 2004 with July 2002 demonstrates an average increase of +7.4%, +11.3% and +16.8% respectively.
