AMS - Long-haul growth suffers from DXB and AUH

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The AMS traffic figures for 2014 indicate that long-haul passenger traffic at Amsterdam Airport is suffering from competition by EK/DXB and EY/AUH:

- 2014 - AMS-DXB +22%
- 2014 - AMS-AUH +34.3%

- 2014 - AMS-USA -0.2%
- 2014 - AMS-China +0.3%
- 2014 - AMS-Canada -2.4%
- 2014 - AMS-Japan -0.5%
- 2014 - AMS-Thailand -3.5%
- 2014 - AMS-India -2.9%
- 2014 - AMS-Malaysia -9.2%
- 2014 - AMS-Singapore -0.9%

This passenger traffic trend is continuing in 2015:

- January 2015 - AMS long-haul -0.3%
- January 2015 - AMS Transfer -2.0%
- January 2015 - AMS Europe +4.6%
- January 2015 - AMS O+D +7.1%

In 2015 European traffic will continue to grow with many new European flights by easyJet, Vueling, KLM, etc.
Long-haul traffic is expected to grow in 2015 as KLM, Air Canada, Qatar and Xiamen are planning to open new routes, while others will operate larger aircraft. But particularly Qatar may impact direct long-haul traffic from AMS to Asia and Africa, as it re-directs Asian and African passengers via DOH.

The same traffic trends are witnessed at transfer hubs LHR and FRA were Asian and African traffic is impacted by new competition by the ME3.