Airport News
AAL says year-to-date international passengers increased by 23.1%, reflecting both an improvement in load factors and a 14.1% increase in capacity.
Managing director, Mark Young, says: “Adelaide Airport continues to achieve strong passenger growth in a relatively weak operating environment.
"We have recently commenced several expansion projects to provide additional aircraft parking and international aircraft capacity to ensure that Adelaide Airport continues to provide sufficient capacity to support future growth.”
Domestic passengers grew 3.5% to 4.7 million for the year to date reflecting an improvement in average load factors and capacity increases across the network, with an additional 129,000 (2.3%) seats in comparison with the previous corresponding period.
The Adelaide to Melbourne route provided the largest contribution to growth with an additional 62,000 passengers (3.9%), followed by the Gold Coast with an additional 21,000 passengers (14.7%).
Regional passengers decreased by 5.5% on the prior year primarily as a result of a reduction in resource industry related traffic. However, AAL says this trend somewhat stabilised in the March quarter.
