Schiphol reports 0.4% decrease of air transport movements compared with June 2018
The decrease in the number of cargo movements continued, with 17.5% fewer cargo aircraft using Schiphol than was the case in June last year. There was a fall in the average cargo load this month, which resulted in a 13.7% decrease in cargo volume.
Over the first six months of 2019, we could see a slight decrease in the total number of air transport movements (-0.1%). The portion of passenger movements increased at the expense of cargo flights. This is reflected in the volumes: thanks to the deployment of larger aircraft (on average) and a virtually stable load factor, +0.4% additional passenger movements have yielded passenger growth of +1.5%.
Cargo, in turn, saw 14.4% fewer movements than in the first half of 2018. The load factor dipped somewhat as well, resulting in a decrease in cargo volume of 16.4%.
