Bratislava airport has today presented the final results for 2015 as well as a brief outlook for 2016. Overall, the airport can consider the past year a succesfull one as results in all areas show a healthy growth. The number of passagners has grown to 1 564 311 - a hefty increase of +15,4% compared to 2014. It is also the highest year on year growth since 2007 and best result since 2011.
The strongest months were as usually july and august, boosted by the typical strong charter season, with july beeing the strongest month of the year with 252 512 pax. Number of passangers on scheduled flights has reached 1 074 700, a massive increase of 23% compared to the previous year. In contrary, the number of passangers on charter flights only grew by 2% reaching 484 871 passangers.
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London remained the strongest destination with slightly more than 300 000 travelers, second most demanded destination was Antalya, which dominated in last years charter season. Among the top 5 destinations were also Dublin, Milan and Rome.
| Scheduled destinations | Non-scheduled destinations | |||
| 1. London | 302 006 | 1. Antalya | 135 676 | |
| 2. Dublin | 124 255 | 2. Bourgas | 42 247 | |
| 3. Milan | 72 366 | 3. Rhodos | 36 233 | |
| 4. Rome | 61 913 | 4. Hurghada | 36 200 | |
| 5. Brussels | 57 549 | 5. Heraklion | 29 846 | |
Ryanair dominated as the largest carrier in Bratislava with 1 010 578 passangers, representing almost two thirds of the overall figures. Dominated is an understatement if we consider Ryanairs share from scheduled traffic only. Here Ryanair has transported a whopping 94% of the overall number of passangers which used scheduld flights to/from Bratislava. A simmilary dominant carrier was Travel Service which transported 81% of passangers on non-scheduled flights. Third largest carrier remained Czech Airlines with 31 975 passangers.
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1. Ryanair 2. Travel Service 3. ČSA 4. flyDubai 5. Bulgarian Air Charter 6. Other |
1 010 578 396 450 31 975 29 606 12 284 83 418 |
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A few interesting figures can be calculated based on last years results. Ryanair is not only succesfull in the overall number, but also is capable to have impressive load factors out of Bratislava. On average the Irish carrier had 165 passangers per flight, which would mean a 87% loadfactor in their 189 seat Boeings 737. However a signifficant portion of Ryanair flights was operated by a 168 seat Boeing 737-400 leased from the Slovak ACMI specialist AirExplore. This counted in means, that Ryanair has reached a load factor above 90% in Bratislava. A sure sign of more Ryanair growth ahead.
Also figures for flyDubai flights to Dubai and recently launched flights of Pobeda can be calculated. FlyDubai is operating out of Bratislava with 100 pax per flight and Pobeda reached in December a nice load of 128 passangers. This is especially impressive due to the very late sales launch of these flights.
The growth in passanger numbers has also been reflected in the number of movements, which grew to 24 622 - a 14,6% increase.
Freight volume turned positive again last year, although limited by missing cargo handling infrastructure at Bratislava airport. An increase of 8,6% is despite that impressive and the total figure for 2015 stands at 21 098 tons. DHL volume grew by 4,8% to 17 987 tons, however ad-hoc freight grew by 36,4% to 3111 tons.
For 2016 the airport expects to continue growth and reach a total of 1,8 million passangers, further growing in 2017 to 2,15 million. In 2016 it plans the reconstruction of the old arrival terminal which will be used as a VIP terminal, which will be put to good use during Slovakias EU presidency. Reconstruction works are expected to start shortly and be finished in time before July 2016.
