Porto and Ponta Delgada in ACI Europe growth rankings

 

ACI EUROPE released its Traffic Report for the year 2015, which arise highlighted the airports of Porto and Ponta Delgada due to the results achieved.

This report, which aggregates information from almost 500 airports in 45 European countries associated with the ACI Europe, representing more than 90% of Europe's commercial air traffic, is a reference document and aggregator of international airport statistics. Indeed, it is the only air transport report which includes all types of civil aviation passenger flights to and from Europe: full service, low cost, charter and others.

Passenger traffic across the European airport network in 2015 grew by an average +5.2%. At EU airports, the average increase in passenger traffic was +5.6% with airports in Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Lithuania achieving double-digit growth.

The "top 5" of passenger traffic growth for 2015 is as follows:

 

GROUP 1: airports welcoming more than 25 million passengers per year

Madrid-Barajas (+12.0%), Istanbul IST (+9.1%), Amsterdam (+6.0%), London LGW and Barcelona El-Prat (+5.7%) and Rome FCO (+5.0%)

 

GROUP 2 (airports welcoming between 10 and 25 million passengers): 

Istanbul SAW (19.7%), Athens (+19.1%), Dublin (+15.3%), London STN (+12.8%) and Izmir (+12.1%)

 

GROUP 3 (airports welcoming between 5 and 10 million passengers): 

Milan BGY (+18.6%), Gothenburg GOT (+18.1%), Berlin SXF (+16.9%), Porto (+16.7%) and Glasgow (+12.9%)

 

GROUP 4 (airports welcoming less than 5 million passengers per year):

Ohrid (+53.3%), Ponta Delgada (+29.5%), Astrakhan (+26.1%), Santorini/Thira (+87.6%), Cluj and Timisoara (+25.8%)

 

It should be noted that Lisbon Airport, belonging to Group 2, had a growth that reached two digits (10.7%) and Faro Airport (Group 3) during the month of December grew by 17.3% compared to the same period of 2014.

Olivier Jankovec, Director General ACI EUROPE said “2015 has been a very good year in terms of passenger traffic, with European airports welcoming an estimated 1.95 billion passengers. 20% of them achieved a double-digit increase and many broke new traffic records – mostly fueled by the continued growth of low cost airlines and selected non-EU airlines”.

Porto Airport, Ponta Delgada Airport (Azores), Lisbon Airport and Faro Airport are managed by ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, a subsidiary of VINCI Airports.