ACI EUROPE has revealed its newest figures, exhibiting a rise in passenger visitors throughout the European airport community of 8.5 per cent in April in comparison with the identical month final 12 months.
Volumes have been simply 0.2 per cent down on pre-pandemic ranges, or as ACI put it “a hair’s breadth away from full restoration”.
In March the affiliation – which represents greater than 500 airports in 55 international locations – launched information exhibiting that worldwide passenger volumes had reached pre-Covid ranges, with home visitors persevering with to lag behind.
European airports’ international passenger traffic reaches pre-pandemic levels
Heathrow remained the busiest European airport, with visitors up 4.8 per cent on April 2023, and simply 1.4 per cent down on April 2019.
The London hub was adopted by Istanbul Airport, which noticed passenger visitors figures up 10.5 per cent on final 12 months, and 22.4 per cent up on April 2019.
Paris CDG was in third place, though its passenger visitors was nonetheless 11.5 per cent down on April 2019, and Amsterdam Schiphol was fourth, with visitors down 10.4 per cent on pre-Covid ranges.
Madrid Barajas rounded off the highest 5, with visitors up 10.6 per cent on April 2023, and up 6.7 per cent on April 2019.
General visitors at Europe’s Main airports (these welcoming greater than 40 million passengers per 12 months) was down simply 1.6 per cent on pre-pandemic ranges.
This in contrast with the figures for Small airports (these welcoming between 1,000 and a million passengers per 12 months), which remained 31.5 per cent down on April 2019.
A number of European airports are forecasting file visitors numbers for 2024, with Heathrow now anticipating to welcome 82.4 million passengers this 12 months.
Earlier this 12 months Istanbul Airport said it was targeting 85 million passengers in 2024, up from 76 million final 12 months.