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March 2015 Eurocontrol Traffic Report: Traffic growth flattens but LCCs continue to grow.
Total Traffic for Europe (average daily departures) continued the recovery which commenced in April 2013, but the rate of growth has fallen back.
March 2015 traffic was 1.4% higher than March 2014 and the twelve months rolling traffic trend was also 1.4%. This is a reduction on the twelve months rolling traffic trend of 1.8% that was reached in December 2014.
Airlines
338 average daily flights were added in March 2015(v Mar 2914):
• Low Cost Carriers (Ryanair, Easyjet, Aegean, Vueling, Pegasus and Wizz continue to provide most of the growth adding a total of 421flights);
• Turkish Airlines which maintained its growth with 64 additional flights; and
• Middle East carriers (Emirates, and Qatar) added a total of 38 flights
Reductions in flights were again led by Lufthansa (230 flights) which was partly offset by an increase in daily flights by Germanwings ( plus 155 daily flights).
Air France, SAS and KLM also had reductions in average daily flights..
Ryanair and Easyjet now account for 9.4% of average daily flights.
Airports
Istanbul/Ataturk and Istanbul/Sabiha Gokcen had a combined increase of 72 average daily flights.
Athens, London/City Madrid, and Dublin also all had growth of at least 20 additional daily flights.
Of the top ten airports four (Paris CDG, Frankfurt, Munich and Copenhagen) had reductions in daily flights.
