Asia Pacific airports lead fastest growth-ACI report

Nearly 4.8 billion passengers arrived and departed the world’s airports in 2007, a growth of 6.8 percent on the previous year,
according to the 2007 World Airport Traffic Report released by the Airports Council International (ACI).
The busiest airports in the world remained in their dominant position, Atlanta staying on top with over 89 million passengers, followed by Chicago O’Hare (76m), London Heathrow (68m), Tokyo Haneda (67m) and Los Angeles (62m). However, when just international traffic is taken into account, the top five busiest airports are London Heathrow (62m), Paris Charles de Gaulle (55m), Amsterdam (48m), Frankfurt (47m) and Hong Kong (46m).
The report showed that the fastest growth in passengers occurred in the Middle East with an 11.3 per cent increase, followed by Africa
(11.2 %) and Asia-Pacific (9.1%). The North America region showed the slowest growth at 3.5 per cent, demonstrating the region’s maturity as well as the capacity and congestion issues it faces. Europe showed growth of 7.4 per cent and, at 31 per cent of world passengers, looks set to overtake North America (32%) as the largest region for air traffic in the next few years if current growth patterns hold.
While worldwide passenger numbers grew by nearly seven per cent, the growth in aircraft movements was at 2.4 per cent, showing that the industry worldwide has moved to larger aircraft and are flying with higher load factors. Aircraft movements handled by the world’s airports totaled 76.4 million last year. Nine out of the top ten airports with highest aircraft movements are in the USA, reflecting
the large share of domestic and regional traffic in that market.
The report also revealed that nine out of the top ten fastest growing airports in 2007 were in Asia-Pacific. The fastest growing market for passengers was India with 24 percent growth and the largest single market in the world remains the USA, which handled 1.4 billion
passengers last year. The second largest market was China with 350 million passengers and third was the United Kingdom with just under 250 million.
31/07/08 micebtn, Australia

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