The ACI Europe, the organisation of European airport operators, has announced the analysis of the traffic in the old continent’s airports for 2017.

The photograph that emerges is certainly encouraging: the passenger movement has grown by 8.5%.

The greatest increase concerned non-EU airports, which reported a + 11.4%, a very significant figure, especially when compared to -0.9% recorded in 2016. The strong recovery mainly involved Russia and Turkey, but also Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Iceland.

In the EU area, the airports of the following countries were particularly marked by a strong expansion of passenger volumes: Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta and Portugal.

The negative consequence of this growth is obviously the inability of many airports to make available to passengers adequate facilities and staff, and to this limit it will certainly be necessary to find effective solutions quickly.