3/12/2010 00:00:00
According to the Istat data referred to the year 2009, the whole air traffic in the National airports reported a negative trend: compared to the previous year, the number of arrived and departed aircrafts decreased by 4.8%, the passengers by 2.4% and the goods and mail by 13.5%. As for passengers the decrease is due to the reduced international traffic (-4.5%), while the national traffic reported a slight increase (+0.5%). For both the types of traffic, one of the main reasons is the reduction of the use of charter flights, that reported a decrease by 11.8% in the national traffic and by 14.7% in the international one.