Annual Traffic Report 2013

/Annual Traffic Report 2013
Air Traffic Statistics
Living ideas – Connecting lives
Contents
/Contents
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Traffic results 2013 at a glance
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Traffic trends at Munich Airport in 2013 and development 1992 – 2013
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Aircraft movements 2013
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Passengers 2013
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Air freight and air mail 2013
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History
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Appendix
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Traffic results 2013 at a glance
/Traffic results 2013 at a glance
Total aircraft
movements
Commercial traffic
Scheduled/
charter
372,010
361,779
- 4.1%
- 4.0%
381,951
- 4.0%
Non commercial
traffic
9,941
- 1.1%
Total passengers
Commercial traffic
Scheduled/
charter
38.673
38.651
mill.
+0.8%
38.690
mill.
+0.8%
17.310
- 1.1%
287,809 t
- 0.9%
Non commercial
traffic
Cargo
(commercial terminal
air freight and mail)
mill.
+0.8%
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Traffic trends at Munich Airport in 2013 and development 1992 - 2013
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/Traffic trends at Munich Airport
in 2013
Munich Airport once again achieved a passenger record in 2013.
Just under 38.7 million passengers departed, transferred or
arrived at the airport at the gates of Munich. However, this
result cannot hide the fact that Munich Airport has also been
hit by the difficult overall situation in air transport in the past
years. The euro crisis and falling economic output in many
European countries are impacting the entire European
aviation sector. The wave of consolidation in European
aviation continues. Financially weaker airlines are fighting to
survive or have already been forced to close their operations.
The insolvencies of OLT and Sky Airlines also meant routes
were discontinued at Munich Airport. All the other airlines are
compelled to focus more on cutting costs and adjusting their
fleets than on developing new routes and markets. In longhaul business, the European network carriers are driven by
the market power of airlines from the Gulf region, and
increasingly Turkey, which successfully transport passengers
from the European markets via their hubs. The general
economic and political conditions enable these airlines to
compete successfully with established European ones thanks
to an excellent product at an attractive price.
In turn, the success of the low-cost providers is forcing the
network carriers into a battle to compete on the European
market. The two major German airlines have been forced to
take harsh economy measures. Lufthansa, for example, has
shifted unprofitable European traffic to its subsidiary
Germanwings as part of the "Score" program for
decentralized traffic activities and now only caters for it at
the hubs with its own craft. airberlin is also trying to post
positive operating income again in future by means of costcutting programs and by focusing on Berlin. In addition,
German airlines are excessively burdened by the air traffic tax
that was introduced in 2011, in particular for domestic travel,
where tax is due both on the outbound and return journeys
and German value-added tax is also charged. The air traffic
tax is charged only once on flights abroad and they are
exempt from value-added tax.
Munich Airport was also not able to evade these
developments. Despite a declining number of flight
movements, the number of seats available was nevertheless
maintained at the level of the previous year and a record load
factor achieved at Munich.
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
17.8
18.1
17.5
12.1
13.1
17.7
14.5
287.1
303.0
289.5
284.5
229.0
256.8
257.9
231.7
208.7
Air freight
Air mail
13.7
15.2
177.0
156.1
165.9
135.0
133.2
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
38.7
38.4
37.8
34.7
32.7
34.5
34.0
30.8
28.6
26.8
24.2
23.2
23.6
23.1
21.3
19.3
17.9
40
2006
2005
21.4
22.0
22.5
22.7
23.3
1999
1998
1997
15.7
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
382.0
398.0
410.0
389.9
396.8
432.3
431.8
411.3
398.8
383.1
355.6
344.4
337.7
319.0
299.1
278.4
267.8
233.3
214.0
199.8
192.2
192.2
500
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
123.3
103.9
200
23.4
23.1
103.6
1996
14.9
13.5
12.7
30
1999
1998
28.1
82.9
1995
1994
1993
1992
400
1997
35.1
70.5
35.8
1995
300
1996
71.8
30.8
1994
0
65.3
30.1
100
12.0
20
1993
1992
200
56.8
25.6
300
1992
Traffic trends at Munich Airport in 2013 and development 1992- 2013
Development of air traffic at Munich Airport 1992-2013
Aircraft movements – total traffic (in 1,000)
600
100
0
Passengers – commercial traffic (in mill.)
50
10
0
Air freight and air mail incl. transit (in 1,000 tons)
400
4
Aircraft movements 2013
/Aircraft movements 2013
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Movements - development 2013
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Aircraft movements 2013
8
Aircraft movements 2013 per month
5
Aircraft movements 2013
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/Movements - development 2013
Trend towards larger aircraft continues
The number of flight movements declined again in 2013.
The declines were mostly at times of weak demand, such as
on weekends, during holiday periods or on public holidays.
The crucial peak traffic times in the morning and afternoon
remained unchanged. As a result, Munich Airport continues
to be stretched to its capacity limits over a period of several
hours a day.
Nevertheless, the number of seats offered was able to be
maintained at the high level of the previous year. The number
of take-offs and landings is primarily a consequence of the
unbroken trend towards replacing smaller craft by larger
planes, above all in the short- and medium-haul arenas. The
Embraer195 with 112 seats is now the most frequently used
type of aircraft. The Embraer jet is mainly used instead of the
smaller 70-seaters such as the Canadair CRJ7, Dash8 and
ATR72. In addition, the consolidation measures by network
carriers are having an effect on the volume of flight
movements. Lufthansa terminated the partnership with the
Munich-based regional airline Augsburg Airways effective
October 2013. Up to then, Augsburg Airways carried out
2,000 flights a month, around 1,300 of them with the Dash8,
which is no longer used by Lufthansa.
number of seats offered per flight increased accordingly from
138 to 144. The number of seats offered in existing hub
traffic can also be increased in particular at peak times by
using the largest-possible continental aircraft. However, this
also shows that further growth is possible in the medium
term only by means of increases in frequency.
94 airlines operated regular scheduled or charter services.
That figure was 101 the year before. These figures reflect the
enormous strain on air traffic. Smaller companies can no
longer cope with the pressure on costs and are forced to
discontinue operations or are taken over by competitors. For
example, airlines who had only started offering their services
at Munich Airport in 2012, such as Cimber Sterling, Cirrus
Airlines, BMIbaby, XL Airways Germany or Spanair, ceased
operating.
Best month - September
September 2013 was the month with the most take-offs and
landings with 33,702 movements in commercial traffic. The
day within the highest volumes in 2013 was likewise in
September. 1,179 take-offs and landings were recorded on
September 27, 2013, the Friday in the first week of the
Oktoberfest.
Number of seats offered per flight increased
The average MTOM (maximum take off mass) reached a
record of 78.8 tons in 2013, 2.5 tons more than in 2012. The
Destinations with regular services in 2013
Germany
Europe EU
Countries
17
118
68
America
Destinations
Airlines
238
94
24
Africa
18
Europe non-EU
36
Asia
25
Passengers 2013
/Passengers 2013
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Passengers - development 2013
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Passengers 2013
13
Passengers 2013 per month
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Passengers 2013 – arrival, departure and direct transit per month
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Commercial passengers 2013 – domestic and international traffic
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Embarkments in Munich to final destination countries 2013
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Structure of air traffic in 2013
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Passengers 2013
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/Passengers - development 2013
The hub as a stabilising factor
The load factor on flights was 75.2 percent in 2013, 0.7
percentage points higher than the previous year.
That is the best figure since the airport was opened in 1992.
The number of passengers carried per flight increased by 5
to the record figure of 108 per passenger flight in
scheduled/charter services.
Most passengers – almost 3.7 million – were recorded in
September. As was the case with take-offs and landings, the
day with the highest passenger volumes was the Friday of
the first Oktoberfest week. More than 139,000 passengers
used Munich Airport on September 27, 2013.
The effects of the ticket tax and the consolidation and costcutting measures by network carriers particularly hit traffic
within Germany at Munich Airport. Routes that used to be
flown by both Lufthansa and Germanwings in competition
with each other were now only served by Lufthansa.
airberlin's focus on Berlin likewise meant a reduction in the
domestic range of flights.
In addition, OLT's solvency right at the beginning of the year
affected inner-German connections only. That resulted in a
reduction in flights by 9 percent and a decline in passengers
by just under 3 percent. Domestic traffic was the weakest
region in terms of performance.
Munich in comparison – 7th in Europe
Compared with results for the traffic at airports represented
in the German Airports Association (ADV), Munich Airport's
Internationally, Munich Airport ranked 7th among Europe’s
airports in terms of passenger numbers. Whereas the
airports of the capital cities in the crisis-hit countries Italy
and Spain suffered declines (the numbers for Madrid even fell
by a double-digit percentage), the volume at Istanbul’s
Atatürk Airport again increased by a double-digit percentage.
Seat load
factor*
Passengers
per flight*
108
75.2%
+5
+0.7PP
144
78.8
+6
+2.5
Number of
seats per flight*
MTOM in
tonns
Scheduled/charter flights; *only passenger flights
The new passenger record and the above-average growth
compared with German commercial airports is primarily
attributable to smooth hub transport operations. The ratio of
transit passengers remained unchanged at 39 percent.
Despite the lower number of flight movements, the number
of seats and destinations offered was maintained. That
secures the quality of the hub and diversity of the
destinations offered to passengers from the Munich
catchment area.
performance was par for the course in 2013. Whereas the
number of passengers was slightly above the German
average, the results for flight movements and air freight and
air mail were slightly below average.
Top 10 airports in Europe 2013:
LHR
CDG
FRA
AMS
IST
MAD
MUC
FCO
LGW
BCN
72.4
62.1
58.0
52.6
51.3
39.7
38.7
36.2
35.5
35.2
Source: Airports Council International
The number of passengers reached a new record, slightly
surpassing the figure for the previous year. 38.7 million
passengers used Munich Airport in 2013. Whereas the
number of seats available was roughly the same as the year
before, there was again an increase in the load factor to a
record of 75.2 percent.
Passengers 2013
Continental and intercontinental traffic – development
Passenger trends in continental traffic were the foundation
for the overall positive volume of passengers in 2013: 23.4
million passengers, an increase of 2.2 percent. The countries
in this region exhibited higher passenger volumes than last
year across the board, with Spain posting the highest growth
in absolute terms. The travel boom with countries in Eastern
Europe continues. Greece was also able to record far more
passengers than the previous year and is well on the way to
achieving the volume before the crisis. Egypt suffered a
significant decline in passenger numbers, due to declining
demand as a holiday destination as a result of the political
unrest there. Estonia slipped well down in the passenger
ranking due to the reduction in the offering to Tallinn;
however, a new destination was offered in the shape of
Vilnius, Lithuania. Further new destinations in Europe and
countries by the Mediterranean included Bordeaux, Bristol
and Casablanca. The markets with the highest volumes in
2013 were again Spain, Italy and the UK. London Heathrow
was once more the international destination in greatest
demand, ahead of Paris CDG. The top ten destinations in
continental traffic are listed below:
In intercontinental traffic, the destinations in Africa and on
the other side of the Atlantic posted growth, whereas there
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was less demand for traffic with Asia than in 2012. The
number of passengers in long-haul traffic increased by 1.6
percent to a total of 5.8 million.
After airberlin largely withdrew from long-haul tourism traffic
last year, some of the destinations were taken over by other
airlines and additional ones were offered. For example,
Lufthansa flew to Cape Town and, after an interruption of
four years, Condor returned to Munich effective the winter
flight plan with long-haul services with destinations in Africa
(Mauritius and Mombasa), Asia (Goa in India) and
destinations for beach vacations in Mexico (Cancun) and the
Caribbean (Cuba, Dominican Republic and Jamaica).
Although supply and demand to and via the Gulf region rose
sharply again, the overall number of passengers was just
below the figure for the previous year due to discontinuation
of the high-volume services to Singapore continuing on to
Jakarta (Lufthansa), to Phuket in Thailand and to the
Maldives (airberlin).
Routes to the U.S., the United Arab Emirates and China
accounted for most intercontinental passengers. As in 2012,
the intercontinental destination for which there was greatest
demand was Dubai, to which there are three flights a day.
Top 10 destinations – number of passengers
Continental traffic
Intercontinental traffic
London LHR
+4.8%
Paris CDG
- 7.6%
Barcelona
+6.3%
Amsterdam
+0.4%
Istanbul
+7.6%
652,000
Doha
Madrid
- 3.1%
643,000
Washington IAD - 9.7%
245,000
232,000
Moskau DME
Dubai
+6.1%
Newark
+5.2%
716,000
Tokyo NRT
- 2.5%
298,000
690,000
Chicago ORD
- 4.4%
295,000
1,156,000
926,000
+26.2%
660,000
328,000
258,000
+13.4%
567,000
Beijing
Palma de
Mallorca
+8.5%
564,000
Bangkok
- 5.9% 199,000
Vienna
- 0.3%
561,000
San Francisco
- 0.2% 193,000
Rome FCO
+5.3%
538,000
Shanghai PVG
- 2,4% 186,000
- 2.0%
27%
27%
29%
31%
Air freight and air mail 2013
/Air freight and air mail 2013
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Air freight and air mail - development 2013
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Air freight 2013
21
Air freight 2013 per month
22
Air mail 2013
18
Air freight and air mail 2013
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/Air freight and air mail development 2013
More cargo aircraft in 2013
Transshipment of cargo, which denotes both air freight and
air mail, was slightly below the level of the previous year in
2013. Despite positive results in the final months of the
year, the result for the previous year was not able to be
attained. Just under 288,000 tons of air freight and air mail
were transshipped, a decline of 0.9 percent.
The most successful segment was all-cargo services, i.e.
shipment on pure cargo aircraft. With a transshipment of
some 35,000 tons, the proportion of all-cargo services in
2013 was around 13 percent. Cargolux, a prestigious cargo
airline, was welcomed to Munich Airport in the summer of
2013. In June it commenced a weekly freight service with the
routing Atlanta-Luxembourg-Munich-LuxembourgViracopos (Brazil). This is the first freight service of Cargolux
to a German airport. Since the end of 2012, FedEx has also
been serving Memphis directly with a B777 with a high
loading capacity for Munich. This cargo connection
strengthened the volume for courier and express services,
with the result that more than 30,000 tons of air freight were
transshipped for the first time in this segment. The result for
all-cargo services was able to be increased by around 10
percent.
The volume of cargo carried on passenger flights was
235,000 tons, below the figure for 2012. It was not until the
final quarter of the year that the bellyhold freight tonnage
reached the level of the previous year. The bellyhold freight
depends, among other things, on the loading capacity offered
on passenger flights. For example, the Dreamliner B787 used
by All Nippon Airways on its Tokyo route offers around a third
less space for bellyhold freight than a B777.
The volume of air mail fell by 1.5 percent to just under 18,000
tons. This segment is strongly influenced by the
transportation concept of Deutsche Post and is of secondary
important for the total cargo volume in terms of quantities.
History
/History
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Traffic records since 1949
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Appendix
Appendix
/Appendix
Europe:
All European countries including Belarus, Cyprus, Moldova,
Russian Federation west of Ural, Turkey and Ukraine.
Denmark including Faroe Islands, Portugal including Azores
and Madeira, Spain including Canary Islands, Ceuta and
Melilla
Middle East:
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
North Africa:
Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya
Rest of Africa:
The African continent without North Africa
North America:
Canada and USA and Greenland
Latin America & the Caribbean:
The Americas with the exeption of North America as defined
above (including Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands)
Chile including Easter Islands, Ecuador including Galapagos
Archipelago, Falkland Islands (british)
Asia/Pacific:
Including Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,
Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russian Federation east of
Ural, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, also Australia,
New Zealand and Pacific Islands with the exeption of Hawaii,
Easter Islands and Galapagos
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