{"id":123159,"date":"2016-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/aihcb-16-5-increase-in-passenger-numbers-in-h1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:46:58","slug":"aihcb-16-5-increase-in-passenger-numbers-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/aihcb-16-5-increase-in-passenger-numbers-in-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"AIHCB: 16.5% Increase in Passenger Numbers in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the first half of this year, the number of passengers transiting European Union airports increased by 6.2% compared to the same period in 2015, according to data from ACI Europe, the association of European airports.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A large part of this growth was concentrated in medium-sized airports, such as Berlin-Schonefeld &#8211; 39.4%, Cologne-Bonn &#8211; 19.8%, Bucharest &#8211; 16.5%, Dublin &#8211; 13.4%, and Barcelona &#8211; 12.7%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the category of airports with annual traffic of 5 &#8211; 10 million passengers, the most significant increases in the first six months of this year were recorded at Berlin SXF &#8211; 39.4%, Larnaca &#8211; 20.8%, Faro &#8211; 18.5%, Ibiza &#8211; 17%, and Bucharest OTP &#8211; 16.5%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Passenger traffic in non-EU countries recorded a modest growth of 0.5% in the first 6 months of this year, with significant declines recorded in Turkey and Russia.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economica.net\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Economica<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How much did passenger traffic grow at Bucharest Airport in H1?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bucharest OTP airport saw a 16.5% increase in passenger numbers during the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which European airport had the highest growth in H1?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Berlin-Schonefeld (SXF) recorded the highest growth among medium-sized airports with a 39.4% increase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the overall growth for EU airports in the first half of the year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to ACI Europe, passenger traffic across EU airports grew by 6.2% compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of this year, the number of passengers transiting European Union airports increased by 6.2% compared to the same period in 2015, according to data from ACI Europe, the association of European airports. A large part of this growth was concentrated in medium-sized airports, such as Berlin-Schonefeld &#8211; 39.4%, Cologne-Bonn &#8211; 19.8%,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conectivity"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/transport-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123159"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}