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Irish Air Traffic reflected the European trend for March 2009 with Air Traffic declining in all the key areas.

• En route operations (over flights) were down -6% on March 2008.
• North Atlantic HF Flights \communications showed a similar trend down -7.8% % on the same month last year.
• Commercial Air traffic movements at the State airports were down on March 2008 as follows Dublin -11.8%, Shannon –6.8% and Cork -25.4%.

2009, January to the end of March showed the following trends:
 

• En route Over flights, down by -5.17%
• North Atlantic Communications, down by -7%
• Dublin Commercial Terminal Movements, down by -12%
• Cork Commercial Terminal Movements, down by -24.1%
• Shannon Commercial Terminal Movements, down by -7.7%
• Combined Commercial  movements for the three State airports were down -13%

See also the Flight Statistics section for further information.