Domestic traffic – which is highly sensitive to public and seasonal holidays (when there is less travel activity), rose by almost 19% in April, whilst international traffic rose by over 8% compared with April last year. But Easter fell in April in 2012. A total of almost 4,035,227 passengers travelled through Avinor’s airports in April.
Avinor’s biggest airport, Oslo Airport Gardermoen, saw growth of 12% in passenger traffic in April compared with the same month last year.
Traffic at Stavanger Airport Sola grew by 24%, Trondheim Airport Værnes 16.4% and Bergen Airport Flesland 16.2%.
Average growth for the national airports was 15.2% compared with April last year. Svalbard Airport recorded the biggest growth, at 39.9%.
At the regional airports, growth averaged 16.7%, and local airports saw growth of 16%.
Aircraft movements increased by 14.5% compared with the same month last year.
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