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Abu Dhabi Airport reports 27 per cent growth in passenger traffic
The Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), the owner-operator of Abu Dhabi International Airport (ADIA), has released its monthly traffic figures for July, which show passenger numbers up 26.7 per cent over the same month last year.
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- Published: 12:57 September 6, 2008
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- Traffic figures for July also indicated that an average of 27,004 passengers per day passed through the Abu Dhabi airport.
Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), the owner-operator of Abu Dhabi International Airport (ADIA), has released its monthly traffic figures for July, which show passenger numbers up 26.7 per cent over the same month last year.
Passenger figures for the year-to-date matched a familiar growth rate seen at the airport this year with the numbers up 36.5 per cent – the airport having handled 5,092,307 arrival, departure and transit passengers from January through July.
Cargo maintained its steady growth with an increase of 15.1 per cent in July 2008 over July 2007's figures. The year-to-date statistics for cargo almost mirroring that rate having posted an overall 15.7 jump over the same seven month period in the previous year.
Traffic figures for July also indicated that an average of 27,004 passengers per day passed through the airport; the month's peak day performance registering a total of 31,783 passengers.
"We expect July to be busy due to the seasonal travel period but to increase such numbers by over a quarter for the month of July and by over a third for the year-to-date is extremely healthy and demonstrates an increasing awareness and willingness for passengers to use the airport and, indeed, airlines to operate from here," said Rudy Vercelli, CEO of ADAC.
The trailing twelve-month period from July 2007 to July 2008, Abu Dhabi International Airport has already handled over 8.2 million passengers in that period.
“If we apply the current growth rates to the whole of 2008, we are now well on course to welcome over nine million passengers through Abu Dhabi International Airport by the end of the calendar year," Vercelli added.
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