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Dublin Airport handled 20.5 million passengers in 2009, which was a 13% decrease of passengers on 2008. Dublin airport had experienced high levels of growth in passengers in recent years until the global economic crisis affected traffic in 2009 which is similar to the experience across European airports. The airport is ranked 10th busiest in Europe for international passenger traffic and 17th in the world. During the year 11 new services were launched of which 4 were to totally new airports. The airport served 190 routes with 63 airlines for the year. Of this 166 were scheduled routes served by 33 airlines. The airport’s overall load factor has remained strong over the years. A total 27.7 million seats were provided in the Dublin market last year with a 74% fill rate.
The peak months of July and August see nearly 2 million passengers use the airport. With only 5% of business travelling on charter flights the fall off in traffic during the winter months is not as severe and consequently does not exhibit strong peaks and valleys. The Continental European market has grown significantly in the past five year and accounts for 10.4 million passengers and represents 51% of the overall passenger number at Dublin. Our top five markets of Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Poland provide 66% of our traffic on Continental Europe while new emerging markets in Eastern and Central Europe are continuing to develop.
The UK market remains our single biggest market accounting for 7.6 million passengers in 2009. The London route is our most important route with nearly 4 million passengers. Heathrow remains the most important onward connecting airport for long haul travel. The Transatlantic market accounted for 1.6 million passenger in 2009 or 8% of total traffic at the airport. New York is a hugely popular destination from Dublin and is now the third busiest destination at the airport after only London and Paris. Other international market is made up predominantly by North African charter flights along with the daily operation by Etihad to Abu Dhabi which is increasing to 10 flights per week from March 2010.
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