ANNUAL REPORT ‘12
BUSINESS REVIEW
45
Among the ANA Group airports, Lisbon airport’s
performance shines through, with its year-on-year
growth of 3.5%, reaching the 15 million passenger
mark for the first time. Porto airport passed the 6
million passenger mark with an 0.8% growth rate, while
Faro airport registered a 1% growth rate, serving 5.7
million passengers.
In Madeira airports, year-on-year demand fell 4.6%;
aircraft movements dropped by 6.1%. On the supply
side, the 3.1% decline in the number of seats resulted
in a 1.0 p.p. drop in the average load factor.
In 2012 the number of passengers on TAP Portugal,
easyJet and transavia.com rose, as shown on the fol-
lowing chart. The six main carriers and the number of
passengers are listed here.
Nine of the ten fastest-growing passenger routes
were operated out of Lisbon airport, and five of them
were new routes, as shown in the table which follows.
AIRLINES
–
PASSENGERS
SATA Group
Lufthansa
transavia.com
5.6%
3.3%
3.2%
MARKET SHARE IN 2012
2011
2012
1,988,114
1,714,377
969,150
1,007,622
808,029
985,665
MS* VAR
12-11
-0.99 p.p.
0.08 p.p.
0.54 p.p.
VAR 12-11
PAX %
Ryanair
12.6%
3,791,406
3,856,474
0.04 p.p.
65,068 1.7%
easyJet
12.9%
3,826,018
3,933,099
0.17 p.p.
107,081 2.8%
-273,737 -13.8%
38,472 4.0%
177,636 22.0%
TAP Portugal
38.7%
11,379,194
11,817,781
0.91 p.p.
438,587 3.9%
* Market Share
