TRAFFIC
Christchurch Airport has welcomed Cathay Pacific’s decision to boost its Christchurch to Hong Kong service to five flights a week during the peak summer months, providing South Islanders with more travel choice and stronger connections into Asia, Europe and beyond. The seasonal service will operate three times a week between November 1, 2026 and March, […]
Global passenger traffic edged closer to the 10 billion per annum milestone in 2025, when a total of 9.8 billion passengers passed through the world’s airports, according to the 2026 ACI World Airport Traffic Dataset released today by ACI World. Covering passenger traffic, air cargo volumes, and aircraft movements, the dataset confirms that aviation continues […]
Traffic to North America remained a bright spot for Heathrow last month, which handled 1.97 million outbound passengers to the region alone. The upturn, fuelled by the ongoing FIFA World Cup finals in Canada, the US and Mexico, marked a second consecutive month of increased travel to the region, with flight numbers up and passenger […]
Nuremburg Airport has some big route development news, easyJet will launch flights to London and Milan from the German gateway later this year. From November 2026, the British airline will begin operating flights from the metropolitan region for the first time, strengthening the airport’s international connections to key European hubs. The main destination is London […]
Helsinki Airport reports that the summer holiday season has begun at a record pace, with a new passenger record set in the first week of June. Operator, Finavia, notes that “a genuine travel spike” in the first week of the month led to it becoming the busiest of the year, with around 378,000 passengers passing […]
A total of 5.7 million passengers passed through Frankfurt Airport in May, 2.7% more than in the corresponding month a year ago. Operator, Fraport, notes that the rise was helped by the timing of holidays and school vacation periods, with Southern Europe proving particularly popular with passengers. Destinations in the Far East, Africa and Latin […]
Queenstown Airport in New Zealand has welcomed more than a million international passengers for the first time in a single financial year. Trans-Tasman traffic has played a key role in the upturn, which will further boosted this month by the launch of new direct services between Queenstown and Brisbane by Air New Zealand and Jetstar. […]
Brisbane Airport is marking a decade of direct connectivity to Canada, with Air Canada celebrating 10 years since the launch of non-stop flights between Brisbane and Vancouver. Since the inaugural flight touched down at Brisbane Airport on June 3, 2016, the route has carried more than 1.2 million passengers between the two destinations and become […]
Traffic across Sweden’s airports continued to rise in May, although international air travel to some extent was influenced by global events such as the ongoing situation in the Middle East. In total more than 3.1 million passengers passed through Swedavia’s 10 airports during May – 3% more than during the corresponding month last year. International […]
ACI Asia-Pacific & Middle East today released a comprehensive assessment of the operational and economic impact of the ongoing military conflict in the Gulf on regional aviation infrastructure in Middle East, and it doesn’t make pretty reading. Its assessment, which covers the two-month period from the conflict’s onset through 30 April 2026, reveals that during […]
A total of 33,494,009 passengers (+3.6%) passed through Aena Group’s global airport network last month. The total means that 114.7 million passengers used its network of 46 airports and two heliport’s in the first four months of 2025 – 3.7% more than in the corresponding period a year ago. Its airports also handled 994,719 aircraft […]
London’s Heathrow Airport experienced a 5% decline in passenger numbers in April, which it attributes to the ongoing impact of the conflict in the Middle East on some markets and short-term adjustments to travel plans. The airport handled 6.7 million passengers, 38,496 aircraft movements (-4.6%) and 129,912 tonnes of cargo (+1%) during the month. However, […]
