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Last year the air traffic fleeting in the EU has reached a new record
Increment of +7.3% on the 2016 and increase of +39% regarding 2009
December 6, 2018
Last year the number of passengers airlift in the European Union has reached the quota record of 1,043 billion unit, with an increment of +7.3% regarding a 2016 and increase of +39% regarding 2009. Eurostat has announced that in the 2017 transports intra-European airplane they have represented almost half (47%) of the number total of passengers, the extra-European transports beyond a third party of total (36%) and the national transports have been pairs at less than on five passengers (17%).
In the 2017 greater number of passengers 265 million are recorded in the United Kingdom (), followed
from Germany (212 million), Spain (210 million), France (154 million) and Italy (144 million). Moreover last year the number of passengers transported from the airplane has grown in all the States of the EU regarding the year precedence, with more important rises in Slovenia (+20%), Luxemburg, Estonia, Bulgaria and Czech Repubblica (+19%), Rumania, Croatia and Malta (+18%), Poland and Portugal (+17%).
Altogether the traffic reported to Italy has been of 144,3 million passengers (+7.3%) on 2016), with a national traffic of 31,1 million passengers (+2.8%), an intra-European traffic of 85,7 million passengers (+7.9%) and an extra-European traffic of 27,5 million passengers (+10.9%).
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