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Abu Dhabi Airport posts 39.2 per cent increase in passengers
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (Adac), the owner-operator of Abu Dhabi International Airport, on Sunday announced a 39.2 per cent increase in its total number of passengers.
- Gulf News Report
- Published: 14:37 June 29, 2008
- Image Credit: Source: Abu Dbahi Airport
Dubai: Abu Dhabi Airports Company (Adac), the owner-operator of Abu Dhabi International Airport, on Sunday announced a 39.2 per cent increase in its total number of passengers.
Adac also revealed that over 3.5 million passengers travelled through the airport during the first five-month period of the year.
"Passenger traffic from January through May has largely matched the steady mid-thirty percentile growth rate we have been witnessing at Abu Dhabi Airport in line with managed and anticipated projections," said Rudy Vercelli, ADAC's chief executive officer.
With growth still largely attributed to the airport's home airline, Etihad Airways, and its increasing network of new destinations and frequencies, figures for the month of May showed a slight departure from the airport's more recent growth rates by posting a solid 56.2 per cent increase compared to the same month in 2007.
Adac officials are keen to place May's impressive growth figures in the context of the other influencing factors, including the effects of Gulf Air's withdrawal from Abu Dhabi Airport.
Vercelli explains: "The transition of a major home-based airline departing and a new one starting up is a rare occurrence at an airport and will obviously have an impact on our numbers."
"The occasional peaks in growth rates can be as much to do with services returning to original capacity after a previous year's lull as much as it is to do with the overall and steady growth rates Abu Dhabi Airport is experiencing by successfully delivering on its commercial agenda," Vercelli said.
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