Madrid Airport 2006 passenger statistics

Hello

In 2006 Madrid airport registered 45.530.010 passengers , a 8% increase
over 2005 .

Source: http://www14.aena.es/csee/ccurl/Anyo%202006.pdf

http://estadisticas.aena.es


Amsterdam Schiphol airport haven't release final figures for december
yet , but in the 04-01Press Release at http://www.schipholgroup.com/
states:

"In 2006, the number of passengers rose by 4.3% to over 46 million,
cargo transport by 5.5% to 1,530,000 tonnes and the number of air
transport movements by 4.5% to 423,000"



So finally MAD have fallen 0.5 -1 M short of AMS in 2006 .


This failure has an explanation , that despite T4 been inagurated in
February 2006 , the new slots wasn't granted until november 06 ,
because AENA alegded that a transitional period was required for the
pilots to get used to the new runaway configuration ( from 2 to 4
independent) that allow fully independent operations .

The growth from Jan 06 to September 06 ranged between 5-8 % , but once
the new slots were awareded the growth in October , November and
December , was 9 %, 11 % and 12,9 % .

The new slot were granted because increase in airport operation from 84
to 90 .

During 2007-2008 Madrid airport will reach full capacity with 120
Operations/Hour that would make room for much more slots , and
passengers numbers.

I was wrong at the beginning of the year , but only for a few months
because before 2007 summer MAD will surpass AMS widely .

MAD will be the 2rd or 3rd busiest european airport , surpassing AMS in
2007 and FRA in 2009 , only behing LHR and CDG , according to the
offical traffic forecast by Eurocontrol :


http://www.eurocontrol.int/corporate...cast_final.pdf


"The study also finds that growth in traffic will have a varying impact
on airports
across the continent. Madrid Barajas airport is set to become the third
busiest
airport in Europe by the end of 2012, overtaking London's Heathrow
and
Amsterdam's Schiphol airports in terms of IFR flights. Paris Charles
de Gaulle
and Frankfurt Main remain first and second"


MAD actually operates more flights per year than LHR and AMS .