Transcript Airport connectivity in East European Countries

Benchmarking of Airports from
Central and Eastern Europe
Sorin Eugen ZAHARIA, Ph.D
University professor.
University Politehnica of Bucharest,
President of Romanian Association for Knowledge
Transfer
INAIR – Amsterdam, november 2015
Outline
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Target group of analyze
The economical context
Operational activities
Quality of community
airline service
1. Target group of
analyze
The top 20 airports from the airport connectivity
criteria, from the following countries:
• EU countries:
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Bulgaria (3)
Croatia (3)
Czech Republic (1)
Hungary (1)
Poland (6)
Romania (4)
• Non EU countries:
– Moldova (1)
– Serbia (1)
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16
16
14
14
12
10
9
8
6
6
5
5
4
4
2
2
0
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Czech
Republic
Country
Poland
Serbia
Moldavia
Croatia
The average of passenger per airport by
country
2500000
2000000
1500000
2013
2014
1000000
500000
0
Czech
Republic
Poland
Hungary
Bulgaria
Serbia
Moldova
Romania
Croatia
2. The economical
context
The GDP’s evolution in Eastern and Central
Europe
GDP – millions euro
200000
180000
160000
140000
120000
100000
80000
ROMANIA
BULGARIA
60000
HUNGARY
CZECH REPUBLIC
40000
POLAND
SERBIA
20000
MOLDOVA
0
CROATIA
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
National traffic 2004 - 2013
30000000
25000000
20000000
ROMANIA
BULGARIA
15000000
HUNGARY
CZECH REPUBLIC
10000000
POLAND
SERBIA
5000000
MOLDOVA
CROATIA
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
The airport connectivity for East and Central
European Countries - 2015
8000
7000
Connectivity
6000
Total
Direct
Indirect
Hub
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
Poland
Czech Republic
Romania
Hungary
Croatia
Bulgaria
Serbia
Moldavia
The airport connectivity by country
Intercontinental
connectivity
Intercontinental connectivity - 2014
60
40
20
0
Poland
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Czech Republic
România
The international connectivity represents from total direct connectivity:
– Serbia* 7.14% ( Etihad), Poland 3.03% (4 continents), Hungary 2.86% (2 continents),
Czech Republic 2.46% ( 4 continents), Romania* 1.55% , Bulgaria *1.27%, Moldova*
1.2%, Croatia* 0,6%
*) only with Middle East
3. Operational
activities
Passenger traffic for top 10 airports for the
period 2004 - 2014
14000000
Passenger traffic
12000000
Warsaw Chopin Airport
10000000
Prague - Vaclav Havel Airport
Budapest - Ferenc Liszt
International Airport
Bucharest - Henri Coanda
International Airport
Belgrade - Nikola Tesla Airport
8000000
6000000
Zagreb International Airport
4000000
Sofia International Airport
Krakow Airport
2000000
Poznan Airport
Chisinau International Airport
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Connectivity and passenger traffic for capitals
Traffic evolution on other regional airports,
positions 11 to 20
3000000
2500000
2000000
Wroclaw
Dubrovnik
1500000
Split
Katowice
1000000
Timisoara
Varna
Bourgas
500000
Cluj Napoca
Sibiu
Warsaw Modlin
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Connectivity and passenger traffic for top
12 regional airport, capitals excepted
3
2
5
1
4
Air companies on airports of capitals
Low cost companies the main actor in the
increasing traffic
• The most important evolutions
between 2004 – 2014 in terms of
passenger traffic are those of the
following airports :
Low cost companies vs legacy
companies:
• Cluj Napoca:
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LCC 2, destinatiions 19
LC 3, destinatiions 6
• Wroclaw :
• Cluj Napoca 564%
• Wroclaw 486 %
• Krakow 353 %
• Sibiu 341 %
• Katowice 332%
• LCC 3, destinatiions 29 (Ryanair 21)
• LC 3, destinatiions 4
• Krakow :
• LCC 6, destinations 45 (Ryanair 29)
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LC 9 , destinations 11
• Sibiu :
• LCC 2, destinations 3
• LC 3, destinations 3
• Katowice
• LCC 3, destinations 32 (26 – WizzAir)
• LC 2, destinations 2
1. In the last 10 years it has been a very important increasing of traffic and
connectivity in East Europe. The aviation sustains economic growth.
2. The increase of traffic in the region is mainly due to low cost airlines
Ryanair and Wizz Air which are extremely serious competitors for legacy
companies operating mostly on short and medium haul segments.
3. It is necessary to concentrate the development airport investments
according to the economic potential of the region, the foreign investor’s interest
in that region and the existing infrastructure of the airports;
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exemples: Bourgas and Varna from Bulgaria and Cluj Napoca from
Romania.
4. The airport connectivity is very sensitive to the evolution of dominant
companies.
– The case of Budapest and Timisoara airports: the disappearing of the two
dominant companies Malev, respectively, Carpatair led to a significant decrease
in connectivity;
– In the case of Budapest, the effects begin to disappear: it recorded an increase
in total connectivity by 10% and by11% in direct connectivity and concerning
the passenger traffic by 7.5% in 2014 vs 2013.
5. One of the priorities of East and Central European countries could be the
improvement of intercontinental connectivity.
6. Bucharest there is the opportunity of becoming a more important hub taking
into consideration the geographical position and the affiliation of TAROM to the
Sky Team Alliance.
Thank you for your attention!
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