Published on : Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Airports in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East maintained steady growth in June 2015, reporting year over year gains at +4.9% and +6.1% respectively. Despite slowdown in regional trade activities, international travel remained resilient. For the first half of 2015, both regions recorded cumulative passenger traffic increase of +8.3% and +8.8% respectively.
A number of major airports in the Asia-Pacific generated year-on-year growth in excess of 15% in 1H 2015: Shanghai Pudong (PVG) +18.5%, Bangkok (BKK) +18.5%, Mumbai (BOM) +17.8%, and Kunming (KMG) +20.2%. Bangkok Don Muang (DMK) continued to generate the highest increase among major airports at +50.3%.
Air freight continued to be impacted by slowdown across Asian export markets. In June 2015, Asia-Pacific recorded a decrease of -0.2% and the Middle East maintained growth at +4.5% from the same period last year. From January to June this year, Asia-Pacific generated cumulative growth of +3% with New Delhi (DEL) achieving the highest growth rate at +12.2%. The Middle East grew at +8.6% year-to-date, and its largest freight hub Dubai (DXB) recorded increase of +2.8%.
Looking ahead towards the second half of 2015, passenger traffic is likely to maintain a solid track with support from leisure travels. However, the slowing down in trade activities continues to put pressures on both passenger and freight traffic in the coming months.
TABLE 1: Airports reporting the highest traffic volume in 1H 2015 (with respective growth rate from last year) according to preliminary traffic data
Top 3 airports by size2 | ||||
Passenger | Freight | |||
> 40M | 25M to 40M | 15M to 25M | 5M to 15M | |
Beijing (PEK) + 6% | Mumbai (BOM) +17.8% | Jeju (CJU) +14.1% | Madras (MAA) +13.3% | Hong Kong (HKG)+0.6% |
Dubai (DXB) + 10.4% | Shenzhen (SZX) +11.7% | Seoul (GMP) +8% | Osaka Itami (ITM)+1.2% | Shanghai Pudong (PVB) +5.0% |
Tokyo Haneda (HND) +4.8% | Shanghai (SHA) +2.2% | Abu Dhabi (AUH) +17.3% | Phuket (HKT) +10.3% | Dubai (DXB) +2.8% |
Source:- Airports Council International Asia-Pacific
Tags: asia pacific, Middle Eastern Airports
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