Many EU airports continued to experience the sharper end of the traffic scale, reporting a decrease averaging -1.8%, while passenger traffic at non-EU airports reported an average increase of +10.1%, when compared with the same month in 2012. Aircraft movements for the whole of Europe reported a decrease of -0.4%, while freight is still stuck in negative numbers reporting -2.0%.
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 adjustment of +0.3%, +1.5%, -0.6% and 0.8% respectively when compared with April 2012.
Airports that experienced the highest increases in passenger traffic per group, when comparing April 2013 with April 2012 were:
GROUP 1 Airports – Istanbul IST (+15.8%), Moscow SVO (+13.8%), Antalya (+10.8%), Moscow DME (+6.7%) & Amsterdam (+3.3%)
GROUP 2 Airports – Istanbul SAW (+16.1%), St Petersburg (+13.3%), Berlin TXL (+13.2%), Oslo (+12.1%), Stockholm ARN (+5.0%)
GROUP 3 Airports – Bergen (20.5%), Ankara (+20.2%), Izmir (+11.4%), Alicante (+7.6%), Warsaw WAW (+5.7%)
GROUP 4 Airports – Arad (+13,642.1%), Chita (+43.8%), Chelyabinsk (+35.1%), Zadar (+31.0%), Lille (+28.9%)
The ‘ACI EUROPE Airport Traffic Report – April 2013’ includes 179 airports in total representing approximately 88% of European air passenger traffic.