Ostend Airport - traffic figures 2008 YTD september

[FLYAIR10]

Traffic figures Ostend-Bruges International Airport

September 2008

Comparison between SEPTEMBER 2008 and SEPTEMBER 2007
Movements
4,097 in SEPTEMBER 2008 compared to 2,242 in SEPTEMBER 2007 (+82.7 %)

Passengers 22,914 in SEPTEMBER 2008 compared to 21,950 in SEPTEMBER 2007 (+4.4 %)

Freight/tonnes 5,112 tonnes in SEPTEMBER 2008 compared to 8,025 in SEPTEMBER 2007 (-36.3 %)

Comparison betwen the year 2008 and the year 2007
(JAN up to and incl. SEPT)

Movements 26,057 in 2008 compared to 21,506 in 2007 (+21.2 %)

Passengers 170,961 in 2008 compared to 152,717 in 2007 (+11.9 %)

Freight/tonnes 57,172 in 2008 compared to 86,005 in 2007 (-33.5 %)

Notes: Passenger figures still going up..and will probably exceed 200.000 mark at year end.. Freight going down.will not exceed 100000 Tons . Where is this spectacular rise in movements coming from? More training flights? More technical stops? Incuding helicopter ferry flights?

[RadarContact]

About the movements: the good weather in the second half of september resulted in an enormous increase in training flights. Most of the time there were four aircraft in the visual circuit while others were training their instrument approaches.

[Charlie Roy]

Today between 5pm and 7pm at least 6 cargo flights (I'm guessing) took off. I was impressed. Very busy!