GERMANY. Passenger traffic at Frankfurt Airport climbed by +1.4% year-on-year in October to 5.5 million. The growth came despite 1,100 pilots’ strike-related flight cancellations which affected about 137,500 passengers. Without the strike by the pilots’ union, Frankfurt Airport would have seen underlying passenger growth of about +4%, said Fraport Group.
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Airports in the group’s international portfolio also reported growth in the month. Fully consolidated for the first time, newly acquired Ljubljana Airport served 117,491 passengers and achieved growth of +6.7% compared to the same month last year.
In Peru, Lima Airport handled almost 1.4 million passengers, up +4.5% year-on-year. Bulgaria’s Twinstar airports of Varna and Burgas had a combined total of 78,078 passengers – representing growth of +2.6%. Antalya Airport in Turkey showed a -4.8% drop in traffic to about 2.8 million passengers.
With more than 1.1 million passengers, St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport saw traffic rise by +5.6% year-on-year. Xi’an Airport in China achieved double-digit growth of +13.7% with a total of 2.7 million passengers. In Germany, Hanover Airport also grew by +5.6% to 571,082 passengers.
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