Record-breaking summer for Copenhagen Airport

A total of 2,141,341 passengers travelled through Copenhagen Airport in August,
which was a new monthly record for the airport. Copenhagen Airport also hit a
record for the whole summer. The year-to-date increase in passenger numbers is
3.4%. 

Passenger numbers at Copenhagen Airport rose by 1.3% in August, and in a
record-breaking June, July and August, a total of more than 6.68 million
passengers travelled through the airport. 

"While travel activity was higher than ever among Danes and other northern
Europeans this summer, the passenger numbers for August were also an indication
of an interesting trend. School holidays falling later meant an increase in
leisure travellers in August. Business travellers, and consequently transfer
traffic, also returned from the holidays later than in previous years, and
these changes were reflected in the traffic figures,” said Carsten Nørland, VP,
Sales and Market for Copenhagen Airports A/S. 

Transfer traffic was down for the first time since the end of 2011, falling by
1.0%. With 4.1% growth, international traffic continued to be the main growth
driver, while domestic traffic is only slowly beginning to recover from the
Cimber Sterling bankruptcy in May. SAS' new route to Billund has only been in
operation since the second half of August. The current number of the seats on
offer is at 91% of the level at the time of Cimber Sterling's bankruptcy. 

Year to date, 15,726,385 passengers have travelled through Copenhagen Airport,
which represents a 3.4% increase over the same period of 2011.