Regulatory Filings • Aug 4, 2022
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Record July for Bologna Airport: after a still difficult start to the year for Covid and after a June that finally saw the "plus" sign on passengers' return, in the month that has just closed Marconi recorded the best data of always of its own history. With a 3.6% growth on July 2019 (last pre-pandemic year) and with a +79.1% on July 2021, in July 2022 the Bologna airport in fact exceeded 950 thousand monthly passengers for the first time (exactly: 950.870).
Furthermore, Saturday 16 July 2022 was the busiest day ever in the history of Marconi, with 34,534 passengers on arrivals and on departures.
As was in the previous months, the July trend is "two-speed" between domestic and international flights, with domestic passengers growing significantly in 2019 (+33.2%), while international ones, although recovering from 2019, they are still below pre-Covid levels (-3.9%).
In detail, in July 2022 there were 247,991 passengers on domestic flights (+15.9% on 2021) and 702,879 passengers on international flights (+121.7% on 2021).
Air movements in the month were 6,792, with a decrease of 1.1% on 2019 (but up 44.6% on 2021), while goods transported by air were 3,324 tons, down 11.4% on 2019 and practically unchanged (-0.1%) on 2021.
The "most flown" destinations in July were: Catania, Barcelona, Palermo, Olbia, Madrid, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Bari, London Heathrow, Frankfurt and Brindisi.
The data relating to the number of passengers and flights in the first seven months of 2022 highlight the further reduction of the negative gap over 2019, while the strong growth of passengers compared to 2021 is confirmed. 2019.
In detail, 4,624,151 passengers were registered in the period January-July 2022 (-13.7% on 2019 and +255.3% on 2021). The overall figure for 2021, equal to approximately 4.1 million passengers per year, has therefore already been largely exceeded.
In the first seven months of 2022, the overall movements were 36,510 (-13.4% on 2019 and +163.6% on 2021), while the goods transported were 23,828 tons (+2.7% on 2019 and +9.4% on 2021).
Bologna, 4 th August 2022
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Airports Plan prepared by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, recorded in 2021 - a year affected by the global pandemic – 4.1 million passengers, ranking as the eighth biggest Italian airport by number of passengers (Source: Assaeroporti – Aeroporti2030). Located in the heart of the Emilian food valley and the automotive and packaging industrial districts, the airport has a catchment area of about 11 million inhabitants and around 47,000 companies, with a strong propensity to exports and internationalisation and with commercial expansion policies to Eastern Europe and Asia. As for airport infrastructure, the airport has among its strategic objectives in the next few years an important development plan that mainly concerns the expansion of the terminal, particularly in the parts of security checks and gate area. The company's aim is to make Bologna Airport one of the most modern and functional in Italy, an important gateway to the city and region.
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Anna Rita Benassi Patrizia Muffato e Ufficio Stampa Relations Manager Tel: +39/051/6479961 Tel: +39/051/6479960
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