In Norway 36.7 million passengers travelled by air, of which 15 million passengers were on a domestic flight. This is an overall increase of 6.1%. In Switzerland 44.2 million passengers travelled by air, of which only 0.6 million were domestic. This is an overall increase of 2.3% from the previous year. Numbers for these three EFTA countries are at a record high.
The Icelandic air passenger transport market was hit hard by the financial crisis in 2009, and the newly published numbers show an increase of 66.0% from 2009 to 2013. The average growth in Europe was 23.5% over the same period.
In freight and mail transport, all three EFTA countries with airports experienced an increase since 2012 (Norway 35.9%, Iceland 3.6%, and Switzerland 0.3%).
A recent news release from Eurostat states that more than 840 million passengers travelled by air in the European Union in 2013. This record number is a rise of 1.7% from the 2012 figure, and the EU country with the largest growth was Luxembourg with a rise of 14.5%.
London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt Main remained the EU's top three busiest airports in 2013, with Heathrow topping the list with 72.4 million passengers (up 3.4% compared with 2012). In comparison, the busiest airports in the EFTA countries were Zurich with 24.9 million passengers (up 0.3% from 2012) and Oslo Gardermoen with 23.1 million passengers (up 4.0%). In Europe, these were ranked as numbers 13 and 15 respectively in 2013.
Source: Eurostat
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