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Report on operations

to a +6.6% increase in the average distance travelled and a +19.8% increase in the
average weight of the aircrafts used, albeit in the presence of a -6.3% reduction
in the number of assisted flights. The connections between Italy and the African
continent registered a sharp fall, decreasing by -21.4% in terms of SUs and -12.7%
in terms of AFs. This is an effect of the no-fly zone over Libyan air space and the
decreased attraction of countries like Egypt and Tunisia as tourist destinations
due to socio-political instability. The airline companies that achieved the greatest
increases in international flights were the low cost airlines such as Ryanair (+8.5%
SUs and +8.6% AFs), EasyJet (+10.8% SUs and +12.7% AFs), Vueling (+41.7% SUs
and +37.7% AFs), Wizz Air (+12.5% SUs and +18.1% AFs), the traditional airlines
such as KLM (+5.6% SUs and +7.1% AFs), Swissair (+13.6% SUs and +6.2% AFs)
and Iberia (+6.8% SUs and +7.4% AFs) and the airlines of the Middle-East such as
Emirates (+30.4% SUs and +16.8% AFs), Turkish Airlines (+5.6% SUs and +15.1%
AFs) and Qatar Airways (+22.9% SUs and +3.2% AFs). A decreasing trend for the
Alitalia Group (-4.1% SUs and -1.3% AFs) and the airlines that are traditionally
present in the Italian air space such as Lufthansa (-5.1% SUs and -6.8% AFs) and
Air France (-3.2% SUs and -6.3% AFs);
• Commercial overflight traffic for aircraft that only flies through the national
air space, that registered a -3.9% in SUs against a limited, +0.8%, growth AFs.
Such result was determined mainly by a -3.3% reduction in the average distance
travelled caused by the losses registered for assisted flights with longer distances
in the national air space. Connections between continents registered an increment
in flights to and from European countries (+4.8% SUs and +6.3% AFs) which
represent, in terms of assisted flights in the commercial overflight category,
about 65% of the total, while connections between Europe and Asia (+2.3% SUs
and -4.7% AFs) show a conflicting trend that is determined mainly by the use
of heavier aircraft (+12.9% average weight at take-off). Traffic between Europe
and Africa decreases (-22.4% SUs and -13.9% AFs), just as it did in Q3 2014, an
effect of the Libyan crisis that caused the closure of Libyan air space starting from
the end of August 2014. This event has determined a temporary loss for ENAV of
overflight traffic associated with international routes that passed through Italian
air space. The airline companies that contributed positively in overflight traffic
were: Iberia (+44.1% SUs and +40.4% AFs) confirming the importance of Spain
in the Italian overflight traffic scenario, Qatar Airways (+34.2% SUs and +21.4%
AFs), Emirates (+9.8% SUs and -0.8% AFs), Ryanair (+9.1% SUs and +3.5% AFs)
and Turkish Airlines (+5.2% SUs and +6.1% AFs) which is confirmed to be the
airline that registered the highest increment in overflight traffic. Decreasing trends
for Lufthansa (-7.2% SUs and +1.0% AFs), Tunis Air (-15.5% SUs and -16.2% AFs),
British Airways (-20.0% SUs and +3.6% AFs) and Air France (-23.8% SUs and -8.9%
AFs);
• National commercial traffic that registered a negative result in 2015, registering
-8.7% terms of SUs and -8.4% in terms of assisted flights, confirming the negative

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