Paris Charles De Gaulle, Heathrow and Frankfurt Airport busiest airports for international flights next week, says OAG – 09/12/05

INTERNATIONAL. OAG’s latest weekly ranking of the world’s airports by international flight frequencies – for the week commencing 12 December – sees Paris Charles de Gaulle top the league in terms of international flight frequencies (4,062 flights) followed by London Heathrow (3,918), Frankfurt International (3,433), Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (3,397) and Munich International Airport (2,346).

Top Asian airport in international flight frequencies was Hong Kong International (2,248). Toronto led the way in North America (1,808) and Dubai headed the Middle East (1,485).

The attached spreadsheet shows the world’s top 200 airports ranked by international flight frequency (not international passenger numbers) and is a valuable indicator of commercial revenue potential.

Among the top 100 airports strong year-on-year moves can be seen from Hong Kong International (+14%), Dubai International (+10%), Kuala Lumpur International (+10%), Istanbul Ataturk (+12%), Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel (+10%), Birmingham International (+10%), Beijing Capital International (+20%); Doha (+13%), Nassau International (+25%), London City International (+20%), Antigua (+31%), Panama City Tocumen International (+16%), Bucharest Otopeni (+16%), Casablanca (+13%), Mumbai (13%), Delhi (+28%), Alicante (+12%), Muscat Seeb International (+11%).

NOTE: OAG is a global management company specialising in travel and transport. The company works closely with The Moodie Report. OAG holds an impressive breadth of travel-related content and is best known for its airline schedules database. This includes flight details for 1,000 airlines and more than 3,500 airports and is updated about ten times a second.

If you need quick, reliable data on the air travel industry go to www.moodie.oag.com and register for your free trial of OAG Max Online. Or for further information e-mail Duncan Alexander at dalexander@oag.com

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