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Irish Air Traffic reflected the European trend for October with Air Traffic declining in all the key areas.

• En route operations (over flights) were down -5.8% on October 2007.
• North Atlantic HF Flights \communications showed a similar trend down -6.2% % on the same period last year.
• Commercial Air traffic movements at the State airports were down on October 2007 as follows Dublin –0.4%, Shannon –11.4% and Cork -8.3%.

2008 to the end of October showed the following trends:
 

• En route Over flights,  up by +1.8%
• North Atlantic Communications, up by +3.4%
• Dublin  Commercial Movements, up by  +3.8%
• Cork Commercial Movements, down by -2.5%
• Shannon Commercial Movements, down by -7.5%

NATS, the UK's major air traffic management company exhibited similar trends in October. See NATS UK - News Release

See also IAA's Monthly Review