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Flughafen Wien Group Continues Upswing: Substantial Passenger Growth and Perceptible Earnings Improvement in the First Three Months of 2017 - Seite 2

to Eastern Europe also expanded strongly, and we achieved growth of more than
35% to and from Russia in April 2017 due to the additional services offered.
This good development is also reflected in rising income from the shopping and
food & beverage businesses. The expected passenger growth of up to 2% in the
entire year 2017 could be surpassed if the very favourable development at
present continues. That is why more runway capacity on the ground will be
necessary in the long term", adds Julian Jäger, Member of the Management Board
of Flughafen Wien AG.

Traffic development in Q1/2017: Flughafen Wien Group handles 5.6 million
passengers

Vienna Airport including its foreign strategic investments in Malta Airport and
Kosice Airport handled 5.6 million passengers in the period January to March
2017, representing a 6.6% increase in passenger volume compared to the prior-
year period.

Vienna Airport: 3.7% passenger growth in the first three months of 2017

The number of passengers handled at the Vienna Airport flight hub rose by 3.7%
to 4,562,824 travellers from January to March 2017 in spite of the Easter
holidays in April this year. The number of local passengers was up 4.5% in the
first three months of 2017, whereas the volume of transfer passengers climbed by
0.8%. Passenger traffic to Western Europe was up 3.7% compared to the 3.6%
increase in people flying to Eastern European destinations. Far Eastern
destinations showed a 4.4% growth in passenger volume, and the number of
passengers flying to the Middle East rose by 9.8% in this period. Due to
seasonal capacity decreases and the deployment of smaller aircraft, the total
number of passengers flying to North America fell by 19.4%. In contrast,
passenger volume to Africa developed positively, expanding by 13.6%.

The number of flight movements fell by 2.0% in the period January to March 2017
from the prior-year level to 47,864 starts and landings. The average seat
occupancy (seat load factor) showed a largely stable development at 66.7% in the
first three months of the year 2017 compared to 66.8% in the previous year.
Cargo volume (air cargo and trucking) increased by 1.4% in the same period to
65,440 tonnes.

Good traffic and business development at Malta and Kosice airports

The foreign strategic investments of the Flughafen Wien Group in Malta and
Kosice Airports are also developing well. Malta Airport reported a strong rise
in passenger volume of 22.2% to 981,955 passengers in the first three months of