Copenhagen Airport will see a decline in the number of passengers using it this year because of the ongoing economic uncertainty, predicted airport executives.
The airport’s parent company Copenhagen Airports’ managing director Thomas Woldbye said they expected growth in 2014 to be slower than last year. Although he did not give an indication of just how much they expected the numbers to fall by, Woldbye said they based the forecast on planned airline activity and possible route closures. He noted that those reasons, along with forecasts on the economy, will result in slower passenger growth.
The prediction came just hours after the largest airport in the Nordics announced revenue of 3.6bn kroner for 2013 – a 3.7 per cent increase on the previous 12 months.
The number of passengers at the airport was 24.1 million over the same period – a 3.1 per cent increase on 2012 and the third year in a row that record numbers have been recorded. There was also a slight rise in the number of international travellers passing through the airport, from 91.7 per cent to 92.1 per cent. Long-haul passengers accounted for 10.2 per cent of all travellers, a rise of 3.8 per cent.
Copenhagen Airport, Scandinavia’s busiest passenger airport, said the growth last year was down to new routes introduced. Executives predict that revenue and passenger growth will continue through 2014.