Source: MIA With Miami International Airport’s record-breaking growth carrying over from last year into 2023, the airport is expecting its busiest spring break travel season ever this month. Passenger totals at MIA in January and February were all-time highs for those months, with February bringing a total of 4.1 million passengers for an average of nearly 150,000 travelers per day – an increase of 7% over last February and 5% over February 2020 (pre-pandemic). According to aviation analytics provider Cirium, MIA is the fastest-growing U.S. airport in airline seats compared to pre-pandemic levels. Since that upward trend is projected to continue in March when spring break periods for colleges and grade schools are scheduled throughout the month, MIA is providing the following travel tips: [...]

Source: AIA On the seasonal service category Delta Air Lines was awarded for fastest recovery Air Canada was highly commended in the same category Focusing on the challenges that the next day holds in the field of aviation and the successive developments taking place in the international airport environment and in the world of technology, AIA’s Airline Marketing Workshop was held again on February 22nd, 2023, after three years, in the presence of more than 200 attendees. With the inventive and symbolic title “Sounding the Future”, the “2.2” airline marketing annual gathering (22nd since airport launch) brought together AIA, the Athens airport community, distinguished speakers from the field of aviation and beyond, sustainable tourism, academia, as well as from the world of [...]

Source: Aena It records a net profit of €901.5 million, compared to a loss of €475 million in 2021* Aena will propose to the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting the distribution of a gross dividend of €4.75 per share, which will benefit both its private and public shareholders Traffic in the Spanish airport network closes with growth of more than 100% compared to 2021 and with a recovery of 88.5% of pre-pandemic passengers Total sales from commercial activity reached the 2019 level (+1.0%) and revenue from fixed and variable rents invoiced and collected in the period exceeded pre-COVID-19 figures Aena has implemented a change in the accounting policy applied to record the impact of reductions in minimum guaranteed rents. The retroactive [...]

Source: Fraport Passenger numbers at Fortaleza (FOR) and Porto Alegre (POA) airports in Brazil dropped slightly to 1.1 million (down 3.0 percent) Some 1.6 million passengers traveled via Peru’s Lima Airport (LIM) in January (up 27.1 percent) The number of passengers at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) increased to roughly 3.7 million in January 2023. This is 65.5 percent more than in January 2022, which was still considerably influenced by the restrictions in response to the omicron variant of the coronavirus. In contrast, January 2023 benefited from return travel from vacation destinations after the Christmas holidays. There was a particularly high demand for the warm waters of European destinations such as the Canary Islands, as well as for intercontinental destinations in the [...]

Source: Fraport FRA welcomed some 48.9 million passengers in 2022 – Increase of 97.2percent compared to 2021 – Cargo throughput declines due to externalfactors – Some of Fraport’s Group airports worldwide exceed pre-crisis levels Brazilian airports of Fortaleza (FOR) and Porto Alegre (POA), combined, recorded some 12.4 million passengers in 2022 – a 41.0 percent gain compared to 2021 Peru’s Lima Airport (LIM), traffic soared by 72.0 percent to about 18.6 million passengers in 2022 (2019 comparison: down 21.2 percent). Some 1.7 million passenger travelled via LIM in December 2022 (December 2021 comparison: up 27.4 percent) Frankfurt Airport (FRA) welcomed some 48.9 million passengers in 2022 – nearly doubling the figure for 2021 and resulting in an increase of 97.2 [...]

Source: ACI Europe The Full Year 2022 & December 2022 traffic report released today by ACI EUROPE shows the airport industry has finally turned the corner on the COVID-19 pandemic. Passenger traffic across the European airport network nearly doubled (+98%) in 2022 compared to the previous year, reaching 1.94 billion passengers. However, that was still -21% below pre-pandemic (2019) volumes, with just 27% of Europe’s airports having fully recovered their 2019 passenger traffic level. Olivier Jankovec, Director General of ACI EUROPE said: “The surge in passenger traffic last year has been phenomenal. Kicking off in early Spring when most travel restrictions were finally lifted, it boomed over the Summer and remained resilient afterwards. All of this despite geopolitical shocks, deteriorating macro-economics, fast-rising air fares [...]