ASUR Announces Passenger Traffic for April 2002.Business Editors MEXICO Mexico, city, Mexico Mexico or Mexico City, Span. Ciudad de México (Méjico), city (1990 pop. 8,236,960; 1991 met. area est. 20,899,000), central Mexico, capital and largest city of Mexico. CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2002 Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A. de C.V. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ; BMV BMV Bolsa Mexicana de Valores BMV Bureau of Motor Vehicles BMV Bundesministerium für Verkehr (German: Federal Ministry of Transport) BMV Below Market Value BMV Brome Mosaic Virus BMV Bedside Medication Verification :ASUR) (ASUR) today announced that total passenger traffic for the four-week period ended April 30, 2002, (April 2002) decreased by 11.7 percent from the comparable period last year. Due to the current situation following the events of September September: see month. 11, 2001, in the U.S., ASUR's management is doing an extraordinary effort to publish passenger traffic figures for the company's airports on a monthly basis to keep investors well informed. Once the situation has normalized, ASUR management expects to return to normal quarterly reporting procedures. All figures in this announcement reflect comparisons between the 28-day period from April 3 through April 30, 2002, and the equivalent 28-day period last year from April 4 through May 1, 2001. Transit and general aviation passengers are excluded from these comparisons.
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Apr 2001 Apr 2002 % Change
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Cancun 677,710 622,279 (8.2)
Cozumel 51,101 34,184 (33.1)
Huatulco 28,834 18,145 (37.1)
Merida 83,070 62,975 (24.2)
Minatitlan 9,497 10,093 6.3
Oaxaca 35,185 32,223 (8.4)
Tapachula 15,393 13,336 (13.4)
Veracruz 38,618 36,470 (5.6)
Villahermosa 43,224 37,891 (12.3)
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ASUR Total 982,632 867,596 (11.7)
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By week, ASUR's total passenger traffic from April 3 through April 30, 2002, varied year-over-year as follows: - Decreased by 1.4 percent for the seven-day Adj. 1. seven-day - lasting through a week; "her weeklong vacation" weeklong long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring period from April 3 through 9; - Decreased by 19.1 percent for the seven-day period from April 10 through 16; - Decreased by 13.6 percent for the seven-day period from April 17 through 23 and; - Decreased by 12.5 percent for the seven-day period from April 24 through 30.
April 3 April 10 April 17 April 24
To 9, 2002 To 16, 2002 To 23, 2002 To 30, 2002
7 Days 7 Days 7 Days 7 Days
Cancun 4.9 (18.4) (9.3) (9.1)
Cozumel (19.9) (37.0) (38.6) (38.3)
Huatulco (2.6) (58.4) (40.1) (33.9)
Merida (17.4) (25.0) (28.3) (26.1)
Minatitlan (5.3) 34.6 (5.0) 5.7
Oaxaca (5.6) (6.8) (14.2) (6.7)
Tapachula (15.4) (3.3) (20.6) (11.6)
Veracruz (14.8) 12.3 (8.5) (7.7)
Villahermosa (20.5) (12.3) (10.9) (4.4)
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ASUR Total (1.4) (19.1) (13.6) (12.5)
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When analyzing the above figures, it should be noted that in 2001 the important Easter Week In the Anglican and other Latin-rite churches, Easter Week is the week beginning with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday. In Eastern Orthodoxy, this week is known as Bright Week. and Holy Week vacation periods took place in April, while in 2002 they took place in March, thus affecting the comparison between the months of April this year and last year. In order to have comparable year-over-year figures, the following table compares accumulated ac·cu·mu·late v. ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing, ac·cu·mu·lates v.tr. To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather. v.intr. To mount up; increase. passenger traffic figures for the period March 1 to April 30, 2002, with those for the equivalent March 2 to May 1, 2001, period. Cancun (2.5) Cozumel (27.7) Huatulco (23.8) Merida (17.4) Minatitlan (4.1) Oaxaca (7.0) Tapachula (8.8) Veracruz (11.7) Villahermosa (15.7) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ASUR Total (6.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About ASUR: Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A. de C.V. (ASUR) is a Mexican Mexican named after or originating in Mexico. Mexican axolotl see ambystomamexicanum. Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum airport operator with concessions to operate, maintain and develop the airports of Cancun Can·cún An island community of southeast Mexico off the northeast tip of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is a popular Caribbean resort. Population: 478,000. Noun 1. , Merida, Cozumel Cozumel (kōzə`mel), resort island, c.190 sq mi (490 sq km), Quintana Roo state, Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea off the E coast of the Yucatán peninsula. It is famed for its beaches and coral reef (declared a national park in 1996). , Villahermosa Villahermosa (vē'yäārmō`sä), city (1990 pop. 261,321), capital of Tabasco state, SE Mexico, on the Grijalva River. The city, which has good communications facilities, is the commercial and distribution center for the surrounding , Oaxaca, Veracruz, Huatulco, Tapachula and Minatitlan in the southeast of Mexico. The Company is listed both on the Mexican Bolsa Bolsa Spanish for stock exchange. , where it trades under the symbol ASUR, and on the NYSE in the U.S., where it trades under the symbol ASR. One ADS represents ten (10) series B shares. --30--tav/ny* CSM CSM - ["CSM - A Distributed Programming Language", S. Zhongxiu et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-13(4):497-500 (Apr 1987)].
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Lic. Adolfo Castro, +(52) 55-5284-0408
acastro@asur.com.mx
or
Breakstone & Ruth
Investor relations:
Luca Biondolillo, 646/536-7012
Lbiondolillo@breakstoneruth.com
Media relations:
Jessica Anderson, 646/536-7002
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KEYWORD: MEXICO INTERNATIONAL LATIN AMERICA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: AIRLINES TRANSPORTATION TRAVEL
SOURCE: ASUR
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