8 December 2010
The overall passenger traffic at European airports increased by 8.8% in October 2010 compared with October 2009. The overall freight traffic among European airports increased 15.4% in October 2010 when compared with the corresponding month in 2009. The overall figure for movements at European airports increased 4.2% in October 2010 when compared with October 2009.
The accumulated figure for passenger traffic January to October 2010 increase by 4.7% compared with the corresponding period 2009, but still registered a decrease of 3.9% when compared with the same period in 2008. The accumulated figure for freight traffic during January to October increased by 21.9% compared with 2009 and 1.5% when compared with 2008. Finally movements increased by 0.5% during the corresponding period when compared with 2009, but registered a significant decrease of 8.7% when compared with 2008.