Published on : Saturday, June 15, 2019
In May 2019, Aircraft movements climbed by 1.0 per cent to 46,181 takeoffs and landings. Accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) expanded by 0.8 per cent to about 2.8 million metric tons.
Most of the airports in Fraport AG’s international portfolio reported passenger growth in May 2019. Slovenia’s Ljubljana Airport (LJU) recorded a 1.8 percent increase in traffic to 170,307 passengers. The two Brazilian airports of Fortaleza (FOR) and Porto Alegre (POA) had a combined traffic of over 1.1 million passengers, up by 1.1 per cent. In Peru, traffic at Lima Airport (LIM) rose by 8.0 per cent to 2.0 million passengers.
The 14 Greek regional airports served about 3.1 million passengers overall, which was a fall by 1.9 per cent year-on-year. The busiest airports in Fraport’s Greek portfolio included: Thessaloniki (SKG) with 606,828 passengers, down 0.4 per cent; Rhodes (RHO) with 599,993 passengers, down 5.1 per cent; and Corfu (CFU) with 347,953 passengers, down 2.0 per cent.
After a phase of very strong growth over the past three years, the Bulgarian airports of Varna (VAR) and Burgas (BOJ) witnessed the consolidation of flight offerings – 270,877 passengers – drop by 18.3 per cent.
At the gateway to the Turkish Riviera, Antalya Airport (AYT) received about 3.6 million passengers, a gain of 3.3 per cent. Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia, advanced by 8.4 per cent to about 1.7 million passengers. Traffic at Xi’an Airport (XIY) in central China reached almost 4.0 million passengers, up 5.1 per cent.
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