EUROPE. Passenger traffic at European airports registered a drop of -3.3% in September 2008 compared with September 2007, Airports Council International (ACI) Europe has reported.
ACI Europe Director General Olivier Jankovec said: “The economic turmoil is now clearly taking its toll on airports across Europe. While they are still notable variations, with some markets, especially in Central and Eastern Europe reporting passenger growth, an increasing number of airports of all sizes are feeling the ill-effects of rapidly declining demand.”
He added: “In tandem with airlines, airports are also being hit, as fewer passengers translates into declining revenues and as their capital intensive nature exposes them to the current paralysis in financial markets.”
The accumulated figure for passenger traffic January to September 2008 increased by +1.9% compared with the corresponding period 2007.
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 reported an average increase / decrease of -4.3%, -3.6%, -2.6% and -0.7% respectively when compared with September 2007.
The same comparison of September 2008 with September 2006 demonstrates an average increase of +1.3%, +4.5%, +3.5 and +8.0% respectively.
Examples of airports that experienced the highest increase in passenger traffic per group, when comparing September 2008 with September 2007, include:
• Group 1 airports – Rome Fiumicino (+5.7%) and Munich (0.6%);
• Group 2 airports – Berlin TXL (+5.7%), Zurich (+3.6%), Prague (+2.2%)
and Geneva (+1.6%);
• Group 3 airports – Milan/Orio al Serio (+10.6%), Moscow Vnukovo
(+10.1%), St Petersburg (+8.1%) and Berlin THF (+6.9%);
• Group 4 airports – Sofia (+19.4%), Riga (+18.8%), Vilnius (+18.3%)
and Katowice (+13.5%).
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