Brussels Airport: monthly traffic figures 2011

[Atlantis]

JULY

PAX

It was predicted and at the final day of July it was confirmed, July was a very, very good month for Brussels Airport and it's operators.

Brussels Airport received in July 2.033.101 pax or an increase with +9,3% when we compare this with the same month of last year.
This means that July 2011 comes just after July 2000 (2.242.409 pax) and July 2001 (2.218.065 pax).

All segments were growing very well. Intra-EU thanks to upgrades of SN and the growing LC-segment. Also Extra-EU is growing due to the new service of Qatar and the upgrades of excisting carriers.

Intra-EU: 1.219.000 pax: +9,8%
Extra-EU: 814.000 pax: +8,7%

In July, Air Arabia increase their presence at the airport to fly 6 times to BRU instead of 3 times
Etihad increased also their number of flights from 6 tot 8 flights a week.


CARGO

Brucargo and Brussels Airport handled 38.700 ton of cargo or a decrease with -5,9% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

It is not only a BRU problem but a worldwide problem. Singapore Airlines cargo is writing red cargo figures, Cathay Pacific is doing also a very bad service this year. Some Asian cargo airports have their worst period in decades


MOVEMENTS

In July there were 21.000 movements at the airport or an increase with +1% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

[LJ]

It is not only a BRU problem but a worldwide problem. Singapore Airlines cargo is writing red cargo figures, Cathay Pacific is doing also a very bad service this year. Some Asian cargo airports have their worst period in decades

It's not a "worldwide" problem. Only traffic from Asia is down heavily. If you look at for example ZRH, FRA and AMS, you'll see that they don't see a decline (mostly due to Africa and North America). Seems to me that it is a BRU problem (too much reliance on Asia for Cargo).

[RoMax]

It's not a "worldwide" problem. Only traffic from Asia is down heavily. If you look at for example ZRH, FRA and AMS, you'll see that they don't see a decline (mostly due to Africa and North America). Seems to me that it is a BRU problem (too much reliance on Asia for Cargo).

It's indeed Asia and BRU is heavily depending on cargo out of/to Asia... Bad year for cargo...

[Atlantis]

It is not only a BRU problem but a worldwide problem. Singapore Airlines cargo is writing red cargo figures, Cathay Pacific is doing also a very bad service this year. Some Asian cargo airports have their worst period in decades

It's not a "worldwide" problem. Only traffic from Asia is down heavily. If you look at for example ZRH, FRA and AMS, you'll see that they don't see a decline (mostly due to Africa and North America). Seems to me that it is a BRU problem (too much reliance on Asia for Cargo).

Still it is. TNT Airways, LGG, has also difficulties with their flights to Asia. Thanks to their flights to the Middle-East they could show resonable figures.

All airports were Asian carriers flies to are affected with cancelled cargo flights or minimum loads. BRU focus is indeed on Asia and that's why they hit harder but the official reports of IATA are very concerned about the worldwide cargo traffic. This is so low.

[lindahabana]

August 2011: Not too bad !
Traffic was 6,7% higher than the pcp with 1.902.126 passengers travelling trough the airport of BRU...
Intra EU : + 8,9%
Extra EU : + 3,5%
Transit and transfer : + 28,7%

Source : MAPairport

Where are figures for SN in august ?

[OO-ITR]

Where are figures for SN in august ?

I was wondering the same

[tolipanebas]

Not published yet, which is quite normal.
Official statistical AEA figures are always lagging behind by more than 1 month....

[RoMax]

Not published yet, which is quite normal.
Official statistical AEA figures are always lagging behind by more than 1 month....

Yes but SN started to announce their figures themself already since this year. Mostly in the first weeks of the month (number regarding to the previous month, so much faster than you can find the figures on the AEA website). This time it seems they didn't published anything yet.

[Atlantis]

AUGUST


PAX

In August, Brussels Airport welcomed 1.902.126 pax or an increase with +6,7% when we compare this with the same month of last year.
Intra-EU was writing double digit figures due to Star Alliance and the LCC.
Extra-EU was a little bit lower due to hurricane Irene which caused cancellations to the US.

Intra-EU: 1.135.000 pax: +8,9%
Extra-EU: 767.000 pax: +3,5%
T&T: 165.000 pax: +25,1%


CARGO

Brucargo and Brussels Airport handled 36.500 ton of cargo or a decrease with -3% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

This is a worldwide problem especially with cargo to/from Asia. Many full freighter flights were cancelled.
However, Singapore Airlines Cargo announced to increase their number of flights to/from BRU.


MOVEMENTS

In August there were 20.000 movements on the airport or an increase with +1,6% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

[Atlantis]

SEPTEMBER


PAX

In September, Brussels Airport welcomed 1.890.713 pax or an extreme increase with +11,9% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

More and more pax find their way to/from and through Brussels Airport thanks to the participation of Brussels Airlines with Star Alliance.



CARGO


In September, Brucargo and Brussels Airport handled 39.300 ton of cargo or an increase with +4,5% when we compare this with the same month of last year. This is the first increase since April this year.
Integrator cargo and cargo via pax was again, month after month, very good. Full freighter cargo was doing better due to less cancellations.


MOVEMENTS


In September there was an increase with +4,5% in movements on the airport.

[Atlantis]

OCTOBER


PAX


In October, Brussels Airport received 1.674.000 pax or an increase with +3,3% when we compare this with the same month of last year.
This increase is due to the increase of more long haul to BRU: Brussels Airlines, Etihad, United and due to better performance of short/mid haul and LC.

During October, Air France Regional started with 9 weekly flights from Nantes to Bru.
Air Arabia started up a new flight from Tangier to BRU.



CARGO

Brucargo and Brussels Airport handled in October 41.733 ton of cargo or a decrease with -1,8% when we compare this with the same month of last year.
In meantime, Korean Air Cargo started up their sixth weekly flight.


MOVEMENTS

During October there were 20.625 movements on the airport or a small decrease with -0,4% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

[Boeing767copilot]

Nov: 1,4 miljoen pax (+4,1%)

Brussels Airport is expecting record growth for 2011. YTD growth till November stands at +9.6%. Expecting another good growth result in the month of December, passenger growth for the full year 2011 should finish at approximately +9.5% growth and 18.7-18.8 million passengers.

[RoMax]

and 18.7-18.8 million passengers.

Isn't that even higher as 2008 (the most bussy year since the collapse of Sabena)?

I find it quite suprising the amount of cargo was up 1.8% in November...worldwide the cargo traffic is down the latest months (mainly due to Asia)...

And despite the reduced capacity of SN this winter, BRU still says: "Once again, growth was largely driven by Brussels Airlines". Mainly in the transfer and long haul segment and possibly Intra-European business traffic which is also said to be doing well (together with low cost)?

[Atlantis]

And these are now the last figures for 2011


DECEMBER


PAX

In December, 1.249.308 pax were welcomed at Brussels Airport. This is an increase with +6,1% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

Again every segment did very well.

Transfer pax saw an increase with +26% when we compare this with the same month of last year.
In December, Brussels Airport had 109.141 transfer pax.


CARGO

In December, Brussels Airport and Brucargo handled 42.322 ton of caro or an increase with +7,3% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

Korean Air, Saudi Arabian Cargo and Singapore Airlines increased their number of flights to Brussels. Only Eva Air Cargo and Cathy Pacific had certain cancellations.


MOVEMENTS

In December there were 16.711 movements on the airport or an increase with 0,4% when we compare this with the same month of last year.

[Atlantis]

In addition to my previous post I can add now also the year figures:


PAX

Total number of pax for 2011 was 18.786.034 or an increase with +9,3% when we compare this with 2010.
This is much better then airports with the same scale then Brussels

Departing: 9.442.585 pax: +8,8%
Transfer: 1.381.729 pax: +33,6%
Transit: 164.135: -6,7%


CARGO

In 2011, Brussels Airport and Brucargo handled in total 475.124 ton of cargo or a decrease with -0,2%

freigher cargo: 338.403: -2,6%
belly cargo: 136.721: +6,2%


MOVEMENTS

In 2011, there were 233.758 movements on the airport or an increase with +3,6% when we compare this with 2010.