The FINANCIAL — The total number of passengers handled by the Flughafen Wien Group (Vienna Airport, Malta Airport, Kosice Airport) in May 2017 increased by 7.5% to 2.8 million travellers.
The accumulated passenger volume in the period January-May 2017 showed a rise of 9.1% to 11.1 million. Vienna Airport also developed very well, with the total number of passengers up 6.7% from January to May 2017, according to Vienna Airport.
Vienna Airport in May 2017: passenger volume up 6.0% – strong growth of transfer passenger traffic
The number of passengers handled by Vienna Airport in the month of May 2017 increased by 6.0% compared to the prior-year month to 2,227,839 travellers. The number of local passengers was up by 4.9%, and transfer passenger volume climbed by 9.3%. In May 2017, the number of flight movements fell slightly by 0.6% in a year-on-year comparison. Cargo volume at Vienna Airport showed a drop of 5.6% from May 2016.
The total number of passengers at Vienna Airport flying to destinations in Eastern Europe climbed 15.4% in May 2017, which is mainly attributable to the additional flight connections to Russia. Passenger traffic to Western Europe rose by 4.0%. The number of passengers travelling to the Far East increased by 4.5% in May 2017, in contrast to the 6.5% drop in passenger volume to Middle Eastern destinations. The number of passengers headed towards North America was up 6.0%, and passenger traffic to Africa also developed positively, rising by 15.2%.
Malta Airport reported a strong growth in passenger volume of 14.4% in the month of May 2017, and Kosice Airport also showed a gratifying year-on-year rise of 8.7% in the number of passengers it handled.
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