November 2019 Traffic Results: 8.6% Rise in Passenger Volume for the Flughafen Wien Group, 9.1% Increase at Vienna Airport

In November 2019, the total number of passengers handled by the Flughafen Wien Group (Vienna Airport, Malta Airport and Kosice Airport) rose by 8.6% to 2.9 million travellers. The accumulated passenger volume in the period January to November 2019 was up 15.2% to 36.6 million. Vienna Airport registered a significant increase in its passenger volume of 17.6% to a total of 29.2 million travellers in the first eleven months of the year.

Vienna Airport: 9.1% growth in passenger volume
The number of passengers handled by Vienna Airport in the month of November 2019 was up by 9.1% compared to the prior-year month to 2,391,208 travellers. The number of local passengers increased by 7.8% and transfer passenger volume was up by 14.3%. The number of flight movements in November 2019 climbed by 1.7% year-on-year. Cargo volume at Vienna Airport was 1.2% higher than the comparable level of November 2018.

The total number of passengers at Vienna Airport flying to destinations in Western Europe climbed by 5.9% in November 2019, whereas passenger traffic to Eastern Europe rose by 10.3%. In November 2019, the number of passengers travelling to the Far East was up by 25.1% from the prior-year month, and passenger volume to Middle Eastern destinations also showed a significant increase of 33.5%. The number of passengers travelling to destinations in North America and Africa also developed positively, rising by 24.7% and 26% respectively.

Malta Airport reported an increase in passenger volume of 8.7% in the month of November 2019, whereas Kosice Airport registered a decline of 22.5% in the number of passengers it handled.

Contact: Press Office of Flughafen Wien AG Peter Kleemann, Company Spokesman Tel.: (+43-1-) 7007-23000 E-mail: p.kleemann@viennaairport.com
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