Many fans arrived by plane for the European Football Championship. However, the busiest day in the sky was after the final.
According to an analysis by air traffic control, the European Football Championship brought a record at the capital’s BER airport. The day after the final, 754 flight movements of larger passenger aircraft were registered there, more than ever since the airport opened in October 2020.
For German airspace, the 9,979 flight movements on Monday, July 15, meant the busiest day of the year. During the entire European Championship, there were 289,513 flight movements, almost 11,000 more than a year earlier. Before the corona pandemic, however, the controllers had already had to control days with five-digit movement numbers. The record is 11,012 flight movements on July 4, 2019.
Source: Stern
