ANA Aeroportos de Portugal pax stable in Jan-2013, all but Lisbon Airport reports decline

Portugal's ANA Aeroportos de Portugal reported (13-Feb-2013) passenger numbers at its airports increased 0.4% year-on-year to 1.6 million in Jan-2013, including a 7.6% increase in LCC traffic. Passenger traffic increased at Lisbon Airport by 2.4% to 1.0 million, exceeding the one million mark for the first time in the month of January. Traffic declined at all other ANA airports including declines of 1.7% at Porto, 3.9% at Faro and 6.3% at Açores. TAP Portugal (47.7%), easyJet (13.2%) and Ryanair (11.5%) handled a combined 72.4% of passengers at ANA airports. easyJet and Transavia reported the highest passenger growth. The largest markets were France, Switzerland, UK and Netherlands. [more - original PR - Portuguese]