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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9349
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport

8.5% rise in air passenger transport in 2005

Brussels, 22/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - According to information published by Eurostat on Friday 19 January, compared with the previous year, the total number of passengers transported by air in the EU25 rose by 8.5% in 2005 to more than 700 million. Passenger numbers rose by 8.8% in 2004 and by 4.9% in 2003. 23% of the 700 passengers were carried on national internal flights, 42% on intra-EU25 flights and 35% on flights outside the EU25. London Heathrow remained the EU's busiest airport with...

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