This article is from page 5 of the 2012-05-22 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 5 JPG
COMMERCIAL flights in and out of Shannon Airport have dropped by almost 10 per cent in the last year.
According to the latest figures from the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) commercial terminal flights at Shannon were down 9.8 per cent in April 2012 when compared to April 2011.
It stated that there are now just on average 48 commercial daily movements at the Clare airport.
Commercial international arrivals and departures for Shannon, Dublin and Cork airports dropped by 4.6 per cent in April 2012, when compared to April 2011.
On a cumulative basis commercial terminal traffic for Shannon, Dublin and Cork airports for January to April of this year was 3.1 per cent.
It was not all bad news for the aviation sector however. There was an increase of 0.2 per cent in Ireland’s en-route traffic movements, or flights that do not land in Ireland, in April 2012 when compared to April 2011.
However, North Atlantic Communications flights (Europe/US Flights) saw a decrease of 0.16 per cent in April 2012, when compared to the same month in 2011.
On a cumulative basis the growth in en-route traffic movements and North Atlantic Communications flights for January to April 2012, compared to the same period last year, was 0.9 per cent and 1.17 per cent respectively.