EUROPE. Passenger traffic across Europe’s leading airports increased +6.4% in September 2004 compared to the same month last year.
For the nine months to 30 September, European passenger increased by +8.1% when compared with the same period in 2003.
Airports that experienced a significant year-on-year increase in passenger traffic in September included:
• Group 1 airports [major airports welcoming more than 25 million passengers per year]: Rome Fiumicino (+6.4%); London Gatwick (+6.0%), and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (+4.7%); Manchester Airport rose +6.7% and Barcelona +7.0%.
• Group 2 airports [large airports welcoming between 10 and 25 million passengers per year]: Munich (+17.8%), Vienna (+14.6%), and Athens (+9.7%);
• Group 3 airports [medium sized airports welcoming between 5 and 10 million passengers per year]: Prague (+23.9%), Moscow Domodedovo (+16.5%) and Stuttgart (+16.4%);
• Group 4 airports [small airports welcoming less than 5 million passengers per year]: Girona (+72.1%), Riga (+45.2%) and Vilnius (+41.9%).
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Passenger figures for September indicate that Group 4 airports had the largest increase in traffic – with an average increase of +10.5% when compared with September 2003 – and an average increase of +18.7% when compared with September 2002.
Group 1, 2 and 3 airports reported average increases of +4.1%, +7.2% and +6.1% respectively when compared with September 2003. The same comparison of September 2004 with September 2002 demonstrates an average increase of +4.6%, +8.2% and +15.3% respectively.
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