EUROCONTROL recently released an analysis of traffic and delays in Europe in 2007, and 2008 predictions, which shows that in 2007, the number of flights in Europe surged to 10 million, an all-time high and an increase of 5.3 percent on 2006. Average daily traffic in Europe in 2007 was 27,676 flights a day compared to 26,286 in 2006. Traffic growth was strongest in Eastern Europe, with several states seeing growth near 20 percent. Growth in Finland and Sweden and in Azores and Canary Islands was lower than the European average. Growth was driven mainly by low cost carriers, which saw an increase of 25 percent on the year as a whole. But in 2007, on average 11 percent of flights were delayed, up from just under 10 percent of flights which were delayed in 2006. The number of flights in 2008 is predicted to grow by 4.2 percent, but air traffic flow management delays for summer 2008 will exceed three minutes per flight, up from 2.6 minutes in summer 2007. Traffic growth is expected to be strongest in countries along the Adriatic Coast and in Poland and the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). For the first time 20 percent of all flights are expected to be from low-cost carriers.