{"id":17975,"date":"2026-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/european-airports-saw-a-decline-in-cargo-traffic-in-march-but-ended-the-quarter-in-positive-territory-aci-europe-data\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:00:00","slug":"european-airports-saw-a-decline-in-cargo-traffic-in-march-but-ended-the-quarter-in-positive-territory-aci-europe-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/european-airports-saw-a-decline-in-cargo-traffic-in-march-but-ended-the-quarter-in-positive-territory-aci-europe-data\/","title":{"rendered":"European airports saw a decline in cargo traffic in March but ended the quarter in positive territory \u2014 ACI Europe data."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>According to a traffic report published by ACI Europe on May 13, 2026, European airports recorded a 3.1% decline in cargo demand in March compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, passenger traffic rose by 3.8%, and the number of commercial flights increased by 1.3%. Despite the weak figures in March, the cargo sector demonstrated positive momentum for the first quarter as a whole: cargo volumes grew by 3% year-on-year, while passenger traffic increased by 4.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Among Europe\u2019s major aviation hubs, Frankfurt Airport maintained its leading position in cargo throughput, handling 179,782 tonnes of cargo in March \u2013 an increase of 1.1% over the previous year \u2013 despite passenger traffic remaining 15.6% below 2019 levels. Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport handled 163,316 tonnes (\u20133%), and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol handled 128,281 tonnes (\u20132.6%). For the quarter, Istanbul Airport emerged as the undisputed leader in cargo volume, handling 494,032 tonnes (+10.3%). It was followed by Frankfurt with 477,207 tonnes (+2.4%), Paris with 474,428 tonnes (+6.8%), and Amsterdam with 361,829 tonnes (+4.9%). Heathrow Airport, with 378,421 tonnes, fell slightly short of its figures from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Medium-sized airports demonstrated particularly high growth rates. Milan Bergamo Airport increased its cargo throughput by 64.4% in March and by 63.6% for the quarter. V\u00e1clav Havel Airport Prague posted growth of 28% in March and 59.3% for the quarter. Positive momentum also continues at Luxembourg Airport, where nearly 75,000 tons of cargo were handled in March \u2013 a 2.3% increase compared to a year earlier.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a traffic report published by ACI Europe on May 13, 2026, European airports recorded a 3.1% decline in cargo demand in March compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, passenger traffic rose by 3.8%, and the number of commercial flights increased by 1.3%. Despite the weak figures in March, the cargo sector demonstrated positive momentum for the first quarter as a whole: cargo volumes grew by 3% year-on-year, while passenger traffic increased by 4.3%.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}