August 2008:passengers +1%, cargo +53,2%

August 2008 was positive at Bologna airport. Considering the general worldwide situation and checking our figures we get +1% increase in passengers traffic and can be accepted such as positive. We have seen 473844 passengers in transit against 469396 of same month in 2007, 4448 is the difference.
Freight is growing again with 1339 tons handled in August 2008 comparing with 874 of 2007, +53,2% change.
Traffic numbers are negative, -5,36% change. 5421 planes landed this year and 5728 in 2007.
Mail is huge positive with 82 tons handled againt 24 of 2007, +241,7% change.
If passenger market have suffered the disappear of Alpi Eagles and reductions made by AirOne, Alitalia and MyAir.
Freight id positive due to the recent agreements had with DHL and expansion of TNT and the new entry FEMAR (in the past in operations from Brescia). The positive figures matured by cargo traffic is the best surprise found in 2008.