2006 Figures, I will update it continuosly

Airport pax number (y/y change)
Wien 16,855,725 (+6.3%)
Praha 11,581,511 (+7.5%)
Budapest 8,266,700 (+2.5%)
Warszawa 8,101,827 (+14.6%)
Kraków 2,367,257 (+49.2%)
Bratislava 1,937,642 (+46.1%)
Katowice 1,458,411 (+33.5%)
Gdańsk 1,256,014 (+86.9%)
Wrocław 865,933 (+86.0%)
Poznań 670,702 (+60.2%)
Brno 393,686 (+24.7%)
Košice 343,818 (+27%)
Ostrava 300,736 (+13.1%)?
Rzeszów 206,934 (+126.2%)
Łódź 206,611 (+1043.2%) :eek:
Szczecin 176,670 (+73.5%)
Bydgoszcz 133,009 (+243.85%)

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=337102&highlight=busiest+airports+eastern+europe

ahaha, 1043% growth.

kokpit we got thread for that - dont open another .. :(

^ which one do you mean?

I'll be sure to follow this thread if it stays... :)

this one : Central European Aviation News

^ this thread is for different purpose

I think is nice to have in one thread and btw>
and you posted there also that kind of infos about Prague Airport(1st page)
I posted there that kind of information (Busiest Airports in Wold in numbers )...have a look maybe you forgot

^ yes, I forgot and that's the reason I found this thread. This way it will be more synoptic IMO.

Here's data for 1Q 07

Airport pax number (y/y change)
Wien 3,691,415 (+9.4%)
Praha 2,343,599 (+15.8%)
Budapest N/A
Warszawa N/A
Kraków 609,777 (+55.1%)
Bratislava 359,810 (+12.2%)
Gdańsk 312,839 (+53.1%)
Katowice 309,566 (+34.1%)
Wrocław 266,522 (+89.0%)*
Poznań 153,828 (???)
Brno N/A
Košice 69,003 (+22%)
Ostrava N/A
Rzeszów N/A
Łódź N/A
Szczecin 42,842 (+5.5%)
Bydgoszcz N/A

* change is for I-IV (I-IV06/I-IV07), PAX number is for I-III

For some airports gathering statistics and putting them on their website is too hard :nuts:

^ wow, great work, thanks! :bow:

For some airports gathering statistics and putting them on their website is too hard
Yes, moreover I had problem with Polish airports except Warsaw since figures on airports websites are bit different (not much though) compared to figures from Poland's office of civil aviation http://www.ulc.gov.pl/download/pdf/stat2006.pdf

Košice and Ostrava are unreachable for me so far.... still some work to be done here.

Wow, it seems that Wroclaw could soon overtake Katowice and Bratislava! :banana:

^ wow, great work, thanks! :bow:
Thanks :cheers:

Yes, moreover I had problem with Polish airports except Warsaw since figures on airports websites are bit different (not much though) compared to figures from Poland's office of civil aviation http://www.ulc.gov.pl/download/pdf/stat2006.pdf
If you look carefully in the footnote, you will see that they haven't counted transit and General Aviation PAX.

And as for the stats for this year I can see only two changes for the 'bigger airports' (Poznań and bigger):
1) WAW will overtake BUD, as the new terminal at Okecie opens and the capacity boosts from 3.5 mln (!!!) to 14 mln
2) KTW can close the gap on BTS and even move ahead - the growth should be close to 40% at KTW (probably today stats for May will be known)

If you look carefully in the footnote, you will see that they haven't counted transit and General Aviation PAX.


Thanks for notice, since it's in Polish I didn't understand it. So I'm going to change all figures according to airport web pages (if possible).

Figures for Budapest airport in 1Q 2007
1,599,981 (+2.8%)

^ wow, great work, thanks! :bow:


Yes, moreover I had problem with Polish airports except Warsaw since figures on airports websites are bit different (not much though) compared to figures from Poland's office of civil aviation http://www.ulc.gov.pl/download/pdf/stat2006.pdf

Košice and Ostrava are unreachable for me so far.... still some work to be done here.

Kosice airport's website:
http://www.airportkosice.sk/
and statistics:
http://www.airportkosice.sk/c/portal_public/layout?p_l_id=23.52

year 2006: 343818 passengers (+27%)

^ thanks, done :)

1.782.338 pax in Warsaw in Q1, so 15,6% higher than Q1 2006. It is expected that this year will be between 9.3-9.6 million.

The important issue is that the data do not include transit and general aviation, so I do not know if they are comparable to other aiports in the region? Especially not including transit pax may influence on the outcome significially.

Poland totally is 3.629.814 for Q1 (also without transit and GA)

2 main conclusions is that regional growth in other airports in Poland remains strong and that T2 in WAW will start operations this month which is supposed to raise the number significially in Q3, Q4 and 2008 according to the list of planned connections. The construction of the 3rd runway is planned for 2009 with possibility for extension of existing T2. Also, Etiuda terminal (for low cost airlines) is to be expanded significially after T2 is completed, so construction should start this year.

Source:

http://www.ulc.gov.pl/download/htm/stat_0107.htm

^ thanks a lot, I will create chart for 2007 figures in my first post soon

http://www.airport.gdansk.pl/cgi-bin/airport/showpassengers.php3 - statictics for Gdansk (Poland) they are keeping very well :cheers: i hope it will be 2 mln pax on our airport this year :)

9 airports should have more than 1 mln till the end of the year.Nice;)

EDIT

So now proper thread and the statistics for Warsaw this year are as follows:
Q1 - 1.782.338,00 (+15,6%)
Q2 - 2.414.327,00 (+12,3%)

Source: www.ulc.gov.pl

Okęcie airport (WAW) versus regional Polish airports are now about 50%/50% in terms of traffic.

Estimating that the growth rate in Q3 and Q4 wil be similiar, the airport will serve about 9,2 mln pax.

Again, Polish governmental civil aviation bureau does not include general aviation and transit in the statistics, so they are rather uncomparable with other countries.

According to Wikipedia, Sármellék Int. airport handled approx. 90000 passangers in 2006.

Figures for first three quartals in 2007

Airport pax number (y/y change)
Wien 14,043,370 (+9.4%)
Praha 9,483,860 (+5.8%)
Warszawa 7,088,876 (+13.5%)
Budapest ???
Kraków 2,359,229 (+34.9%)
Bratislava 1,572,321 (+1.5%) (estimation on the basis of first 8 month figures)
Katowice 1,501,502 (+36.4%)
Gdańsk 1,297,169 (+39.1%)
Wrocław 972,505 (+60.1%)


sources:
http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart?rel=en&content-id=1187651814803&reserve-mode=active
http://www.airportbratislava.sk/flashContent/default3.html
http://www.ulc.gov.pl/download/pdf/stat01_09_07.pdf
http://www.airport.gdansk.pl/cgi-bin/airport/showpassengers.php3?miesiace=1&rok=,2007

Omg, Bratislava airport was the slowest growing airport because of our new government :bash:

^why do you think that Bratislava airport is the slowest growing one? Brno airport, for instance, is much smaller according to that list... Fortunately, there were some extensions a few months ago.

Omg, Bratislava airport was the slowest growing airport because of our new government :bash:

The main reason is that SkyEurope moved some flights to Vienna. The capacity of the old terminal is still not full. Only when the number of passangers will reach 2 million we can say our governemt is guilty.

The only two things which could save the M. R. Štefánik airport is new terminal and highspeed rail connection with Schwechat. The first step must be the new terminal. If our government doesn't want to sell the airport it should at least built it using PPP or fund some joint venture company with private investor. The second is highspeed rail connection with Schwechat which should be finnished immediately after new termianal to bring enough passangers for it.

According to press Prague Ruzyně reached 12.44 mio passangers in 2007 (+7,5% y/y)
http://i.idnes.cz/07/122/cl/SPI1fb2fc_vanoce_2008_na_Letisti_Praha.jpg
http://ekonomika.idnes.cz/prazske-letiste-loni-odbavilo-rekordni-pocet-pasazeru-pgf-/ekonomika.asp?c=A080103_115513_ekonomika_spi

not oficially confirmed, but Warsaw airport handled 9,25 mln, as usual transit and general aviation not included in the statistics. Compared with 2006 the growth is about 14,2%

Figures for first three quartals in 2007

Airport pax number (y/y change)
Wien 14,043,370 (+9.4%)
Praha 9,483,860 (+5.8%)
Warszawa 7,088,876 (+13.5%)
Budapest ???
Kraków 2,359,229 (+34.9%)
Bratislava 1,572,321 (+1.5%) (estimation on the basis of first 8 month figures)
Katowice 1,501,502 (+36.4%)
Gdańsk 1,297,169 (+39.1%)
Wrocław 972,505 (+60.1%)



It's a pity that Poznań is not on the list, the airport has been for a long time neglected by the central aviation authorities but now it's catching up, new routes have been opened and I'm looking forward to a rapid increase in passengers' numbers.

Here's the number of passengers over the last years.

http://www.airport-poznan.com.pl/images/statystyki/pl_pax_r_2007.jpg

Budapest Airport
http://www.bud.hu/_Images/szamok_adatok/forgalom/000002177_figures1.jpg.jpg_orig.jpg
-in thosands...it was 8,3 million in 2006.

Additionally,not really busy,but FlyBalaton had 70000 passangers in 2006,and around 140-150000 in 2007,and expects 300000in this year.

According to press Prague Ruzyně reached 12.44 mio passangers in 2007 (+7,5% y/y)


Congrats! This was reported in the local news over here too... The airport is expected to reach 20 million by 2020. Sounds Cool.

^2020? These long-term predictions are very ridiculous in current world...

^^ Yes it was 2020 and the figure 20million. It was reported in the news. I suppose this figure is pretty realizable unless another 9/11 occurs in the meantime. I hope it won't.

^ there will be fatal lack of oil that time so I suppose flying will become very rare again.

In december there were 36480 passengers flying from or to Košice Barca airport. This number represents 66% growth in comparison with same month last year.
During the year 2007 the Košice Airport handled 443448 passengers, i.e. 32% more than last year (343818 passengers). Low budget Sky Europe Airlines has become the most successful airline of Kosice airport, mostly because its new routes to London, Dublin and Prague...

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/2648/statistics2007an8.jpg
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7562/statup5.jpg

^ impressive growth

^^ Hopefuly, it wont stop soon.
With only 20 % year growth, has Kosice Barca airport (ksc) potential to reach 700 000 pax in 2011. So maybe its gonna be even sooner.

Here are the 2007 PAX numbers for Polish airports (in thousands):
Code City PAX Change
-------------------------------
WAW Warszawa 9 250 +14.1%
KRK Kraków 3 069 +29.7%
KTW Katowice 1 996 +36.8%
GDN Gdańsk 1 723 +37.1%
WRO Wrocław 1 281 +47.9%
POZ Poznań 897 +33.7%
LCJ Łódź 338 +63.2%
SZZ Szczecin 238 +34.5%
BZG Bydgoszcz 179 +34.6%

RZE Rzeszów N/A

more complex data for Poland:

Warsaw 9 268 551
Kraków 3 068 199
Katowice 1 995 914
Gdańsk 1 741 000
Wrocław 1 280 973
Poznań 897 973
Łódź 337 891
Rzeszów 278 287
Szczecin 234 800
Bydgoszcz 179 746
Zielona Góra 6 998

Total 19 289 296

and y/y growth:

Łódź 63,6 %
Wrocław 49,3 %
Poznań 40,8 %
Gdańsk 39,3 %
Katowice 38,7 %
Bydgoszcz 35,1 %
Rzeszów 34,5 %
Szczecin 32,9 %
Kraków 30,7 %
Warsaw 14,4 %
Zielona Góra -15,8 %

Average 25,5 %

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7698/printlogoss7.png (http://imageshack.us)

8.6 million passengers at Budapest Airport in 2007

Budapest Airport launched a new 3-year incentive scheme to promote further growth

BUDAPEST, 11, January, 2008.

Budapest Airport handled a total of 8,597,137 passengers in 2007, a 4% rise on the year before. In the last month of the last year 561,355 passengers used the Ferihegy airport, 7.8% more than in December 2006.

The number of passengers travelling with traditional carriers rose by 5% to 5,232,490, while the number of low cost passengers grew to 2,205,651, up 0.4% from 2006.

The number of air transport movements in 2007 was a 2.1% lower than in 2006, totalling 124,298 movements. The difference between the growing passenger-numbers and the fewer air transport movements is due to the fact that the airlines are operating with better load-factors and larger aircraft.

The busiest month of the last year was August when BA handled 977,913 passengers. August 2007 has also become the busiest month to date in the history of the airport. The calmest month of 2007 was February with 437,852 passengers.

Jost Lammers, CEO of Budapest Airport said: "This is a reasonable growth for an airport in general but our expectations for the future of Budapest Airport are much higher. With our 261-million Euros BUD Future modernization program we will open the way for further growth as well as improving customer service and comfort. And our new 3-year incentive scheme, which we have launched recently, will help us to attract more airlines to open new services to Budapest."

Budapest Airport introduced a new tariff manual on 1 January, 2008. The tariffs package includes a new 3-year incentive scheme, which supports airlines that are contributing to the growth of BA and the Hungarian tourism, and the economy as well. The scheme offers significant discount for airlines which are launching new flights and expanding their frequency.

Budapest Airport traffic figures, 2007

2007 2006 %
Number of passengers 8,597,137 8,266,677 4%
Scheduled passengers 7,968,801 7,639,520 +4.3%
Of which traditional 5,232,490 4,981,632 5%
Of which low-cost 2,205,651 2,196,541 +0.4%
Transfer passengers 1,577,006 1,525,520 +3.4%
Charter passengers 612,27 608,4 +0.6%
Others 16,066 18,757 -14.4%
Air transport movements 124,298 126,947 -2.1%

Budapest Airport introduced a new tariff manual on 1 January, 2008. The tariffs package includes a new 3-year incentive scheme, which supports airlines that are contributing to the growth of BA and the Hungarian tourism, and the economy as well. The scheme offers significant discount for airlines which are launching new flights and expanding their frequency.

^^ Great decision! Some airlines have started moving out due to high prices of the airport. This is the best way to attract them back.


Thx for the translation anyway.

Leszáll Ferihegyen a világ legnagyobb repülőgépe

Az Antonov iroda An-225-ös típusú hat hajtóműves óriásgépe pénteken délután landol, hogy földrengésgenerátorokat szállítson Ferihegyről a Közel-Keletre - közölte a Budapest Airport szóvivője, Szollár Domokos a Gazdasági Rádiónak.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2971/6437bringa2ch9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

A gigantikus gépet eredetileg a szovjet űrrepülőgép-program céljaira készítették egyetlen példányban a Buran űrrepülőgép szállítására, a program leállítása óta pedig különlegesen nehéz és nagy terhek szállítására használják.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8875/6435bringa1yo6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Az érdeklődők péntek délután a 2B terminál e célra kivételesen megnyitott teraszáról figyelhetik a gép landolását, ami a Ferihegyi 2-es pályára várható.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6070/6432a3c070002largenc9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

VG cikk (http://vg.hu/index.php?apps=cikk&cikk=204102&fr=hk)

^^The Giant will arrive to Budapest Ferihegy Airport Friday afternoon, and for this special occasion the observation deck will be opened for the public at Terminal 2/B.

The AN-225 is going to transport huge "earthquake generators" to the Middle-East...

What is an earthquake generator?

What is an earthquake generator?

I have no idea, but It's definitely not generating earthquakes... :lol:

Probably its a power generator using/gathering the energy caused by Earth's movements... I mean the seismc sheets...

^^ Or this is simply a huge real-time weather-simulator made for a rich Middle-East shah who is missing the rainy sky in the middle of the desert. Sure.

After thinking,and the 3rd result in google-

Politics from Taiwan » The world’s tallest earthquake generator

-it suddenly stiked me:it is the stuff that is put into modern skyscrapers,and function as a counter-weight that balances the building during earthquakes...

After thinking,and the 3rd result in google-

Politics from Taiwan » The world’s tallest earthquake generator

-it suddenly stiked me:it is the stuff that is put into modern skyscrapers,and function as a counter-weight that balances the building during earthquakes...

Nice digging RawLee... :okay: Highly feasible... :yes:

^^The Giant will arrive to Budapest Ferihegy Airport Friday afternoon, and for this special occasion the observation deck will be opened for the public at Terminal 2/B.

The AN-225 is going to transport huge "earthquake generators" to the Middle-East...

I had the opportunity to check out this plane in Kiev (it was in 2004), and well... ermm... it is BIG :D

BTW are these earthquake generators manufactured in Hungary ?:eek:

Well,if they load it here,then it is probable...

I had the opportunity to check out this plane in Kiev (it was in 2004), and well... ermm... it is BIG :D

BTW are these earthquake generators manufactured in Hungary ?:eek:

Probably the remains of Ganz-Transelektro..

^^The Giant will arrive to Budapest Ferihegy Airport Friday afternoon, and for this special occasion the observation deck will be opened for the public at Terminal 2/B.

The AN-225 is going to transport huge "earthquake generators" to the Middle-East...

The little Ukranian baby taxiing at the airport :cheers:
qbUmdt2Rb_M

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7347/felvidekairslovakiajv4.jpg
Air Slovakia and real jet plane in one picture together. nice.

So this is chart showing main airports in Central Europe according to 2007 figures, I hope there are not many mistakes


Vienna 18,768,468 (+11.3%)
Prague 12,436,254 (+7.4%)
Warsaw 9,268,551 (+14.4%)
Budapest 8,597,137 (+4.0%)
Krakow 3,042,351 (+29.6%)
Bratislava 2,024,142 (+4.5%)
Katowice 1,995,914 (+36.9%)
Gdansk 1,741,226 (+39,3%)
Wroclaw 1,270,825 (+48.1%)
Poznan 864,647 (+35.7%)
Košice 443,448 (+29.0%)
Brno 415,276 (+5.5%)
Ostrava ~330,000 (~10.0%)
Lodz 308,775 (+50.8%)
Rzeszow 273,638 (+80.6%)
Szczecin 227,899 (+29.0%)

Kosice airp. doing good job...propably serving large area touching Ukraine cities(towns) within 100 km and few Polish and Hungarian cities(towns) as well...

^ Košice are doing well but Bratislava seems to be in shadow of Schwechat, Vienna probably takes in lots of pax at least 100 kms around, people from Brno use it as well, so it is becoming major Central European transfer hub and is still growing at rapid pace. But I see the biggest growth potencial in Poland, few years ago Prague got more pax than all Polish airports together, this is naturally rapidly changing nowadays.

^ Košice are doing well but Bratislava seems to be in shadow of Schwechat, Vienna probably takes in lots of pax at least 100 kms around, people from Brno use it as well, so it is becoming major Central European transfer hub and is still growing at rapid pace. But I see the biggest growth potencial in Poland, few years ago Prague got more pax than all Polish airports together, this is naturally rapidly changing nowadays.

Problem of Bratislava airport is lack of investments. The airport desperately needs new terminal. But, to be honest, airport so close to Schwechat cannot compete with it.

A report on Katowice and Ostrava airport (first couple of minutes): http://www.ct24.cz/vysilani/2008/02/17/308281381900214-17:29-adresa-stredni-evropa/

BTW. Katowice served 155 500 PAX in January, that's 59% growth from last year. The film material says, that they would like to handle 2 600 000 PAX in 2008, but if the growth continues 2 800 000 or even more is possible.

first three month in Prague Ruzyně
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8569/nepojmenovan1es8.jpg

^^ This constant rise is amazing. Do you have data on how many percent of the passengers use Prague as an interchange airport. I'd be interested also how many percent of the passengers departing from Ruzyně are from neighboring countries compared to inland passengers.

^ transfer passangers are around 19%, domestic flights only about 1%, if you are interested see detailed statistics http://www.prg.aero/en/site/business/provozni_statistiky/aktualni_rok/tr_2008/tp_032008_pdf.pdf

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/2958/tyw974tqyzuac8rvgcv7696.jpg

More photos in video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9LuPUIRzeM

The new passenger terminal at the Bratislava Airport with annual capacity of 3.5 million travellers should be opened before the start of the summer season in early June, the SITA newswire wrote.

The project has entered its final stage and all regular and charter flights will move from the existing terminal to the new building following trial operation. The renovation of the existing terminal will start immediately after flight operations relocate to the new building, said the spokesperson for the airport, Dana Madunická.

The reconstruction of the existing terminal and construction of a new terminal are vital for providing services in the coming years, the airport said. The reconstruction of the existing terminal should be completed by February 2012 and annual capacity of the airport will then exceed five million passengers.

Costs of the construction of the new passenger terminal and the reconstruction of the currently used facility are calculated at about €96 million.