New figures indicate recovery at European airports

New figures indicate recovery at European airports

Figures released by the Airports Council International (ACI) Europe for January 2010 indicate that a recovery is underway at aviation hubs across the continent.

The organisation revealed that overall passenger traffic at European airports was 3.9 per cent higher in the month than in January 2009.

Among group one airports - those that handle more than 25 million passengers a year - Istanbul and Rome Fiumicino posted year-on-year increases of 18.3 per cent and 13.5 per cent respectively.

There were also traffic increases at a number of hubs that host between ten and 25 million passengers per year, including Moscow Domodedovo and Athens.

Olivier Jankovec, director general of ACI Europe, said: "These January figures confirm the improvement of the last months.

"However, we are still at -8.5 per cent for passenger and -10.1 per cent for freight compared to January 2008, so quite some distance from where we were."

The report covered a total of 110 airports, representing nearly 80 per cent of all European passenger traffic.

Posted by Clare, 12 March 2010 15:32

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