Le trafic des aéroports européens au-dessus des difficultés économiques de 2011 (European airport traffic above economic woes of 2011)
European airport trade body, ACI EUROPE today released its traffic results for 2011, a year in which freight traffic growth began promisingly, before going negative in the second half of the year.
By contrast, passenger traffic at European airports remained more robust throughout 2011.
The overall passenger traffic saw an increase of +7.3% compared with 2010 while freight traffic all weathered some rough months to growth of just +1.4% in the same comparison.
When adjusted to compensate for the impact of the 2010 volcanic ash crisis and exceptionally harsh winter conditions, 2011 passenger and freight traffic respectively grew by +5.2% and +0.6%. The overall figure for movements at European airports was +4.1% in 2011 when compared with 2010.