Billund Airport A/S

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April

Traffic Report April 2008 Comments from the Airport Manager			Billund Airport, 2008-05-01
	April 2008	April 2007		Per cent	Change
Operations	4,748	4,362		8.8%	386
Scheduled	2,617	1,946		34.5%	671
Charter	501	656		-23.6%	-155
Other traffic	818	612		33.7%	206
Local traffic	812	1,148		-29.3%	-336

Passengers	187,883	165,538		13.5%	22,345

Domestic, scheduled	12,012	8,676		38.5%	3,336
Arriving	6,160	4,454		38.3%	1,706
Departing	5,852	4,222		38.6%	1,630
Transit/transfer	0	0		-	0

International, scheduled	127,837	91,372		39.9%	36,465
Arriving	62,502	46,614		34.1%	15,888
Departing	63,733	43,474		46.6%	20,259
Transit/transfer	1,602	1,284		24.8%	318

Charter	45,831	63,897		-28.3%	-18,066
Arriving	22,099	31,774		-30.4%	-9,675
Departing	20,402	28,027		-27.2%	-7,625
Transit/transfer	3,330	4,096		-18.7%	-766

Other traffic	2,038	1,428		42.7%	610
Local traffic	165	165		0.0%	0

Cargo, in tons	5,022	4,798		4.7%	224
Import	2,357	2,489		-5.3%	-132
Export	2,665	2,309		15.4%	356

Traffic Report January-April 2008			Billund Airport, 2008-05-01
	Jan-Apr 2008	Jan-Apr 2007		Per cent	Change
Operations	16,027	15,191		5.5%	836
Scheduled	9,227	7,950		16.1%	1,277
Charter	2,119	2,160		-1.9%	-41
Other traffic	2,133	2,005		6.4%	128
Local traffic	2,548	3,076		-17.2%	-528

Passengers	704,097	604,977		16.4%	99,120

Domestic, scheduled	40,394	33,308		21.3%	7,086
Arriving	20,877	16,845		23.9%	4,032
Departing	19,517	16,463		18.6%	3,054
Transit/transfer	0	0		-	0

International, scheduled	427,000	317,189		34.6%	109,811
Arriving	208,152	155,665		33.7%	52,487
Departing	212,834	156,834		35.7%	56,000
Transit/transfer	6,014	4,690		28.2%	1,324

Charter	231,347	249,555		-7.3%	-18,208
Arriving	107,016	116,585		-8.2%	-9,569
Departing	105,751	115,972		-8.8%	-10,221
Transit/transfer	18,580	16,998		9.3%	1,582

Other traffic	5,189	4,760		9.0%	429
Local traffic	167	165		1.2%	2

Cargo, in tons	18,776	18,743		0.2%	33
Import	8,633	9,130		-5.4%	-497
Export	10,143	9,613		5.5%	530

Continuing growth in Billund

187,883 passengers passed through BillundAirport in April 2008. It is an increase of 13.5 per cent compared to April last year. There are variations within the segments.

Scheduled international flights show significant growth as the number of passengers on these flights went up by 39.9 per cent to 127.837. Traffic to London and Oslo has increased. To london because this route is now being operated by both Sterling Airlines and Ryanair. To Oslo because this route is being operated by Cimber Air, SUN-AIR/BA and Sterling Airlines.

Lufthansa took over the route between Billund and Frankfurt on March 30 with at considerable effect. The number of passengers on this route has gone up by more than 50 per cent. At the same time the biggest international route from Billund – KLM’s route to Amsterdam – has continued its growth with double-digit growth rates.

Also Cimber Air’s expansions to Munich, Bergen and Stavanger have contributed to the growth. The same goes for Sterling Airline’s new route to Prague.

Also Ryanair’s many routes have contributed significantly to the growth.

Today, May 1, Air Baltic has its first flight on the new route between Billund and Riga in Latvia.

Sterling introduces its new direct service to sunny Italian island Sardinia on May 13. From May 17 Iceland Express reopens its service between Keflavik and Billund. This year with 3-4 weekly departures against two weekly departures in 2007. On June 17 Ryanair opens its new service between Birmingham and Billund and on September 24 its new service between Edinburgh and Billund.

With these new routes Billund has a total of 34 scheduled international services.

Charter traffic went down in April for the first time in many months. The decline of 28.3 % is due to a number of factors.
This year it was Easter in March which meant that Easter was not the starting signal of the Summer season, which has often been the case. The postponement of the Summer season with some weeks has meant less charter flights compared to April 2007 where Easter and the Summer season start meant high charter figures in Billund. Apart from that a number of destinations which were last year served by charter flights are now being served by scheduled flights. The total number of flights to e.g. Prague and Rome has been larger in April this year than last year. But this year a number of the flights have been carried out as package holidays on scheduled flights. This has of course affected the statistics – positively for scheduled flights but negatively for charter.
Charter bureaus concurrently say that the demand for package holidays in the Summer season 2008 is on a very high level.

Domestic traffic has in April amounted to 12,012 passengers, which is 38.5 per cent more than last year.

The amount of handled air cargo has increased by 4.7 per cent to a total of 5,022 tonnes. Import has declined but export has increased significantly.

Billund, May 1 2008
Jørgen Krab Jørgensen