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 (Group 4) reported an average increase/decrease of +3.1%, +2.7%, +5.1% and +4.0% respectively when compared with October 2010. The same comparison of October 2011 with October 2009 demonstrates an average increase of +10.8%, +13.6%, +16.9% and +4.0% respectively.
Examples of airports that experienced the highest increase in passenger traffic per group, when comparing October 2011 with October 2010, include:
Group 1 airports – Istanbul IST (+19.8%), Barcelona (+9.5%), Amsterdam (+6.8%) and Paris ORY (+4.5%)
Group 2 airports – Moscow SVO (+10.2%), Istanbul SAW (+10.0%), Helsinki (+9.6%) and Stockholm ARN (+9.0%)
Group 3 airports – Venice (+33.7%), Kiev (+20.1%), Ibiza (+19.7%), and Tenerife TFS (+14.5%)
Group 4 airports – Vilnius (+51.0%), Bourgas (+49.7%), Tallinn (+37.0%) and Tirana (+29.2%)
The ‘ACI EUROPE Airport Traffic Report – October 2011’ includes 171 airports in total. These airports represent approximately 88% of European passenger traffic.
Source: ACI EUROPE