ADIA clocks 15.5% increase in traffic
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The month of April has been positive for Abu Dhabi Airports.
The Authority recently announced that passenger traffic at Abu Dhabi International Airport increased by 15.5% in April 2015 as compared to 2014.
The airport’s passenger statistics showed that 1,871,337 passengers used the airport during the month, growing from 1,620,324 in April 2014. Aircraft movements increased to 14,211 in April 2015, recording 14.4% growth when compared with 12,420 movements logged in April 2014.
Eng Ahmad Al Haddabi, chief operations officer at Abu Dhabi Airports, said: “Abu Dhabi International Airport continues to maintain double-digit growth in passenger traffic and aircraft movement. Key drivers for passenger traffic growth last month include: increased activity by Etihad Airways’ new partner airlines namely Air Berlin, Jet Airways and Air Seychelles to cater for high demand during the holiday season; addition of four new routes (Madrid, Poona, Vince and Entebbe in Uganda) by Etihad Airways and Alitalia and increase in number of flights to Jeddah for the Omrah season presented by Saudi Airline.”
In April 2015, top five routes from Abu Dhabi International Airport were London Heathrow, Bangkok, Manila, Doha and Bombay. The top five routes accounted for 16% of all traffic last month.
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