Breaking the boundaries
New all-time daily record for Eindhoven Airport
Last Sunday, 22nd of July, will be written as the busiest day in history of Eindhoven airport. Our OPS people along with our other partners did a great job welcoming and greeting 22444 passengers in only one day. This is an all-time daily record for Eindhoven Airport! When we see more details about that day, this record is even more impressive.
Average Load Factor was 93.8 % with an average of 181 PAX on board per airplane in 126 flights ! That is impressive, especially when there were no wide bodies that day.
Top 10 destination on Sunday were:
- Alicante 1051 PAX
- Valencia 1034 PAX
- Budapest 849 PAX
- Palma 731 PAX
- Lisbon 728 PAX
- Nice 726 PAX
- Pisa 721 PAX
- Ibiza 704 PAX
- Malaga 700 PAX
- Faro 695 PAX
From the beginning of the year until 22nd of July, Eindhoven airport had 3.363.653 passengers and 21.270 flights, which is a 10% growth comparing to the same period previous year or 297.119 passengers more. Also, average load factor in the same period was 87.9 % or 166.5 passengers per airplane (without wide-body aircrafts). Until now, Eindhoven Airport introduced 6 new destinations (Rijeka, Vienna, Iasi, Bratislava, Tivat and Kos), but also in the winter period Eindhoven Airport expects at least 5 new destinations.
According to shown info, it is going to be a busy summer for Eindhoven Airport, but also a busy winter with our first long-haul destination, which will lead us to planned 6.3 million passengers in 2018.
Stay tuned