GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss, Easyjet and Geneva airport all showed traffic up in 2012, figures published Thursday 10 January show.
Swiss in 2012 carried 16.8 million passengers, a 2.5 percent increase and a record number for the airline, owned by Lufthansa, the parent company said in a statement.
The Swiss seat load factor, at 82.4 percent was an industry high, according to Lufthansa. All the airlines in the group saw improved performance last year. In total they carried more than 103m passengers.
Easyjet carried 5.6 million passengers in Geneva and 2.8m in Basel, with traffic strongly increasing at both airports, 10.3 percent and 17.2 percent respectively. The number of flights was also up: 6.7 percent in Geneva, where the company now has 36 percent of the market and 12.1 percent in Basel where Easyjet has 48 percent of the market. The company employs 781 people in Switzerland, 60 of them hired in 2012.
Geneva Airport figures published Thursday show a nearly 6 percent increase in passenger traffic in 2012, to 13.9 million.