IAA publish March traffic figures

The Irish Avaition Authority today published the traffic statistics for Irish airspace and the three state airports for March 2009.

During March,

• En route overflights were down 6% on March 2008
• North Atlantic HF communications were down 7.8% on March 2008
• Commercial traffic movements at Dublin were down 11.8%, Shannon down 6.8% and Cork down 25.4% on March 2008.

For Q1 2009

• En route overflights are down 5.17% YoY
• North Atlantic communications down 5.7% YoY
• Dublin commercial terminal movements down 12% YoY
• Shannon commercial terminal movements down 7.7% YoY
• Cork commercial terminal movements down 24.1% YoY

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