MAp June 2005 Traffic Figures

Macquarie Airports (MAp) today released its monthly report on traffic performance at its airports for June 2005.

* preliminary estimate
** Traffic performance for Copenhagen Airports is set out in attachments 1 to 4 of this release.

Macquarie Airport’s Chief Executive Officer Kerrie Mather said, “Around 10 million passengers passed through airports in the MAp portfolio in June with our airports continuing to increase traffic numbers from a mix of both scheduled and charter flights.

“Continuing traffic growth at Sydney Airport of 2.8% pcp builds on the strong increase of the previous period. Since the height of the SARS epidemic in June 2003, international traffic at Sydney Airport has grown by approximately 30% or 13.8% on a compound annual basis,” Ms Mather said.

“Rome and Bristol airports both recorded double digit growth in passenger traffic in June. Growth at Rome was driven by an expansion of low-fare traffic and higher load factors. New international scheduled flights were introduced from Bristol to the United States and continental Europe.

“Brussels Airport has experienced another strong month of growth generated primarily by charter traffic and the success of airline marketing activities leading to additional scheduled flights.

“Birmingham Airport broke previous records in June, handling over 960,000 passengers to record 9.2% growth on pcp. This growth included the launch of several new airlines, increased frequencies and new routes,” Ms Mather said.

Sydney Airport

*domestic including regional passengers are estimated.
Any adjustments to preliminary statistics will be included in the year to date results in future months.

Total traffic at Sydney Airport for June 2005 is estimated to have increased by 2.8% over the pcp and 7.1% for the financial year 2005. International passengers for June grew 4.0% on the pcp, an improvement in the rate of growth over May 2005 as the impact of a strong bounce-back last year related to SARS and the Iraq War in the prior year moderated.

In key international markets for June, Australian outbound traffic was up 9% (May +5%). New Zealand travellers were down 6% on the pcp (May -6%), jointly influenced by significant growth in June 2004 related to seat capacity growth and price competition on the trans-Tasman routes as well as the British Lions Rugby Tour to New Zealand in May/June 2005. UK travellers were up 10% on the pcp (May +2%). US travellers were down 1% on the pcp (May +2%), and Canadian travellers declined 2% on the pcp (May +6%).

In Asian markets for June, Korea was up 27% on the pcp (May +9%) and China was up 10% on the pcp (May +0.2%). Japan declined 16% on the pcp (May -22%), influenced by the strong bounce-back in June last year related to SARS and the Iraq War in the prior year.

Domestic passenger traffic continued growth at 2.3% on the pcp.

Brussels

In June 2005, Brussels Airport’s traffic was 6.1% above the pcp with departing passengers 6.8% up on pcp.

Extra-EU scheduled traffic was 6.9% higher than pcp largely driven by higher loads on existing flights.

Charter traffic (including Military and GA passengers) increased by 11.7% on the pcp. This growth was again driven by a strong performance (+25.9% increase) in Extra-EU charter traffic as a result of additional capacity provided by the tour operators.

As from the beginning of June, SN Brussels Airlines opened a Brussels to Glasgow service on a nine-times weekly basis, Virgin Express added Toulon and Bergamo and Club Air added Genoa and Palermo as from June 24.

On 2 July, SN Brussels Airlines inaugurated its seasonal services to Cork, Jersey and Bari and on 4 July, Corendon launched a new route to Eskisehir in Turkey.

The Indian carrier Jet Airways plans to commence scheduled flight operations from Mumbai, India to Newark (New York), via Brussels. The new service will be operated six times a week. The start date for the service will be confirmed once all necessary approvals have been received. In addition, Sun Air will start operating a service to Aarhus (Denmark) with 10 frequencies weekly from August 28.

Aeroporti di Roma (AdR)

In June 2005, Rome Airport’s traffic was 12.9% above the pcp. There was a 6.5% increase at Fiumicino and a 95.0 % increase at Ciampino.

Domestic traffic was 4.8% above the pcp, a continuing improvement in performance. The new domestic routes opened by Ryanair at Ciampino are now carrying over 40,000 passengers a month.

Intra-EU traffic increased by 20.5% on the pcp. Growth continues to be driven by the expansion of low-fare traffic at both Ciampino and Fiumicino and higher load factors.

Extra-EU traffic increased by 14.9% on the pcp, due to buoyant demand on long-haul flights.

Apart from the new domestic services noted above, Ryanair also added a daily service to Dublin. In addition, easyJet added a daily service to Basle from June, to Belfast from 2 July and will add a double daily service to Berlin from 21 September.

From 30 October, Ryanair has announced that it is adding a daily service from Rome Ciampino to Santiago De Compostela.

Birmingham International Airport

Birmingham Airport enjoyed a record breaking month in June, handling 960,419 passengers, a rise of 9.2% on pcp. The increase reflects the launch of several new airlines, increased frequencies and new routes.

In June 2005 domestic traffic was 17.6% higher than pcp. This improvement in performance reflects the introduction of bmibaby services. Best performing domestic routes were Edinburgh (+24.4%), Aberdeen (+10.6%) and Inverness (+9.6%).

International scheduled passengers increased by 25.0% on the pcp with growth achieved on services to Asia which grew by 55.6% last month following the introduction of the Air India service to Amritsar and Delhi. Other scheduled routes which saw significant rises in traffic over pcp were, Larnaca (+128.9), Prague (+99%), Milan (+50.6%), Amsterdam (+15.6%), Zurich (+15.6%), Lyon (+11.6%) and Munich (+11.1%).

Continuing recent trends, charter passengers fell by 9.6% overall during June, growth was achieved on several routes including Mexico (+102.7%), Bulgaria (+76%), Turkey (+21.6%), Cyprus (+12.9%) and Croatia (+8.6%).

flybe has announced that it will launch a flight to Berne, Switzerland for the winter season. In addition, bmibaby will increase services to Geneva from one to six flights weekly for the peak skiing season. Finally, Monarch Airlines has announced an increase in flights to Alicante for the winter season, increasing from 3 to 6 flights per week.

Bristol International Airport

Domestic traffic for June increased by 4.8% on the pcp due to the opening of the Eastern Airways routes to Newquay and Leeds.

International scheduled flights increased by 21.4% on the pcp. Growth continues to be driven by the introduction of new scheduled routes this summer including Milan, Rome, Newark and Zurich.

Charter traffic was 4.2% higher than the pcp, a performance considerably ahead of the UK market as a whole.

The eighth easyJet aircraft was based at the airport in July and has started flying to Inverness, Murcia and Pisa. In addition, easyJet has introduced a twice-weekly seasonal service to Mahon (the island of Menorca) for the summer period.

Ryanair has announced a daily service from Bristol to the new destination of Shannon starting on 30 October. This will be the third Irish point served from Bristol and Ryanair’s second destination from the airport.

Statements by Copenhagen Airports concerning June traffic are attached. MAp acquired an 11.3% interest in CPH in the first quarter of 2005.

Traffic Data

All data is for arriving and departing passengers (000s)
All data is taken from management accounts, is provisional and subject to revision
Bristol data is now shown for calendar month in the above table
*MAT refers to Moving Annual Total
**Sydney data contains estimates with adjustments made to preliminary data in later months

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