January 2010 Air Traffic Movements
10 Feb 2010
While 2009, witnessed the biggest decline in air passenger traffic in the post-war era according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), figures for traffic passing through Irish controlled airspace for January 2010 reveal a continued decline on the comparable figures for January 2009.
En route operations (over flights) were down -1.2% while North Atlantic Communications flights were down -3.1% % on January 2009.
Commercial air traffic movements at the State airports were down, as follows,
- Dublin -21.2%
- Shannon -28.7%
- Cork -13.6%.
The combined commercial movements for the three State airports were down -21.2%.