BELGIUM. March 2003 results among the major European airports show a fall in monthly passenger traffic of -3.3%, according to latest ACI (Airports Council International) figures, compared with March 2002. Aircraft movements rose by +3.7%.
The data was collected within the framework of the ACI Rapid Data Exchange Programme, which comprises data from 43 European airports accounting for almost two thirds of Europe’s airport traffic. Within the programme, 32 of the airports around the region experienced a fall in traffic. Those most severely affected in March were Budapest (-12.6%), Tenerife Sur (-12.5%), Lisbon (-9.1%), London Heathrow (-8.1%), Manchester (-8.0%) and Milan Malpensa (-7.4%).
Airports which continued to grow through the period, which included the start of the Iraq war, were Rome Ciampino (+198.1%), Stockholm Bromma (+23.7%), London Stansted (+17.4%), Berlin Tegel (+12.5%) and Oslo (+7.1%).
