The Airport Council International (ACI) has reported a 4.1 percent drop in the overall passenger traffic at European airports in September 2009 compared with September 2008.

The overall cargo traffic among European airports decreased -7.8% in September 2009 when compared with the corresponding month in 2008.

Movements at European airports decreased -6.9% in September 2009 when compared with September 2008. The accumulated figure for passenger traffic January to September 2009 decreased by -7.7% compared with the corresponding period 2008.

The accumulated figure for freight traffic during January to September decreased by -19.8% and movements decreased by -8.7% during the corresponding period when compared with 2008.

Airports welcoming more than 25 million passengers per year (Group 1), airports welcoming between 10 and 25 million passengers (Group 2), airports welcoming between 5 and 10 million passengers (Group 3) and airports welcoming less than 5 million passengers per year (Group 4) reported an average decrease of -3.3%, -6.2%, -4.4% and -4.3% respectively when compared with September 2008. The same comparison of September 2009 with September 2007 demonstrates an average decrease of -7.5%, -10.3%, -7.3% and -6.1% respectively. (EHL)