Copenhagen Kastrup Airport pax up 1% but domestic pax down 25% in Aug-2012

Denmark's Copenhagen Kastrup Airport passenger numbers up 1% - traffic highlights for Aug-2012:

• Passenger numbers: 2.1 million, +1.3% year-on-year;
  • Domestic: 151,001, -25.4%;
  • International: 2.0 million, +4.1%;
• Aircraft movements: 20,167, -9.2%;
  • Domestic: 2007, -44.3%;
  • International: 18,160, -2.4%.

The airport also reported the following top 10 destinations in Aug-2012:

• London: 137,955, -3.3%;
• Oslo: 107,907, +7.9%;
• Stockholm: 104,534, +5.0%;
• Helsinki: 72,252, stable;
• Amsterdam: 70,863, stable;
• Paris: 69,136, -3.3%;
• Aalborg: 66,604, -16.8%;
• Frankfurt: 54,548, +12.4%;
• Keflavik Reykjavik: 47,358, +2.3%;
• Berlin: 45,310, +26.1%. [more - original PR]

Copenhagen Airport: "While travel activity was higher than ever among Danes and other northern Europeans this summer, the
passenger numbers for August were also an indication of an interesting trend. School holidays falling later meant an increase in leisure travellers in August. Business travellers, and consequently transfer traffic, also returned from the holidays later than in previous years, and these changes were reflected in the traffic figures," Carsten Nørland, VP sales and market. Source: Company statement, 12-Sep-2012.