Europe’s airports post solid traffic performance in 2014

European airport trade body, ACI EUROPE today released its traffic report for December, Q4 and Full Year 2014. The report is the only air transport report which includes all types of civil aviation passenger flights: full service, low cost and charter. The report reveals that during 2014, passenger traffic at Europe’s airports grew by an average +5.4%.

More specifically, passenger traffic in the EU grew by a healthy +4.9%, with Greece, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Belgium and Ireland significantly outperforming the EU average. Conversely, countries such as Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Latvia and the Czech Republic all saw airport traffic growing below this average. Meanwhile, non-EU airports posted a dynamic passenger traffic growth of +7.3% with Serbia, Iceland, FYROM, Georgia and Turkey all growing well above this average. Freight traffic across the European airport network grew by +3.6% with a similar performance between EU and non-EU airports (+3.6% and +3.3% respectively).
Source: http://goo.gl/0CRTrX