OSL Second Largest Airport in Scandinavia
Norway's hub airport reports an amazing growth in 2007, and confirms its position as the second largest airport in Scandinavia.
19 Million Passengers in 2007
OSL had the fastest growth of all the large airports in Scandinavia in 2007. OSL had 19 million passengers, a growth of 7.8%. This has strengthened OSL’s position as Scandinavia’s second largest airport with more than one million more passengers than Arlanda. Kastrup is still Scandinavia’s largest airport with 21.4 million passengers. The cabin factor, which is the share of occupied seats, was 72% for the year as a whole. This is an increase of 3% from 2006.
“The growth in 2007 is due to a good economy and a desire to travel even during the traditional low seasons,” says Knut Stabæk, marketing manager for traffic development. In 2007 OSL had direct connections to 120 destinations. This is 15 more than in the previous year. New year-round routes were established to Edinburgh, Nottingham/East Midlands and Antalya.
The strong growth at Oslo Airport in 2007 continued in December with an increase in passengers of 8.2% compared to the same month in 2006. For December as a whole, 1,290,724 passengers travelled through Oslo Airport. This was 97,377 more than in December 2006. International traffic increased the most with 12.3%, while domestic traffic increased by 4%.
A total of 19,043,800 passengers travelled through Oslo Airport in 2007. This is an increase of 1,371,621 compared to 2006. On domestic routes passengers increased by 536,783 or 6.4%.
International traffic increased by 9.0%, and here scheduled flights had the greatest increase with 9.4%, while international charter traffic increased by 6.0%. 834,838 more passengers travelled abroad last year.
Friday 15th of June saw a new passenger record for Oslo Airport with 72,378 passengers.
The number of commercial flight movements (scheduled, charter and freight) was 216,251 in 2007. This is an increase of 11,142 or 5.4% from 2006. Domestic flight movements increased by 6,582 (6.5%) and international by 4,560 (4.4%). Two thirds of domestic increases were due to new postal flights. The number of flight movements in 2007 was 2% higher than the previous record from the year 2000.
Source: OSL
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