“We can see that the negative trend experienced over the past few months is continuing. The fall in traffic volume by 18.7% was primarily due to the economic downturn and the resulting fall in travel activity caused by the financial crisis. Moreover, traffic was extraordinarily high in February 2008, one of the reasons being that it was a leap year, said Carsten Nørland, Director of Aviation, Copenhagen Airports A/S. The leap year alone meant that there were approximately 3% more passengers than during a normal February of 28 days.
2009 will be a difficult year
1,307,868 passengers travelled through Copenhagen Airport in February, which was 299,846 fewer than in February last year. International traffic fell by 19.2% to 1,171,006 passengers, and domestic traffic fell by 13.4% to 136,862 passengers.
“We are still not prepared to speculate as to when traffic growth at Copenhagen Airport will pick up again, but we expect that 2009 will generally be a difficult with overall fall in traffic, said Nørland.
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