Air traffic
Only half as many passengers on domestic flights as before Corona
After the break-in in Corona pandemic, many domestic flights were no longer absorbed in Germany. The number of passengers grows again, but this is mainly due to foreign traffic.
The number of passengers at large German airports grow strongly, but are significantly below the level before the outbreak of Corona pandemic 2019. Because inner German air traffic is only slowly recovering, figures from the Federal Statistical Office show.
In 2024, 199.5 million passengers were counted at the 22 German transport airports – 7.7 percent more than in the previous year. Measured by the 2019 pre-Corona level, when the airports reached a record with 226.7 million passengers, the passenger volume was twelve percent lower.
In 2024, air traffic grew by eight percent to 173.7 million passengers and was only 7.8 percent below the pre-corona level. The number of passengers on domestic flights, on the other hand, only increased by 3.7 percent to 11.9 million. Measured in 2019, the number of passengers was almost half (-48.5 percent) lower.
Long-standing trend after Corona slump
Air traffic on abroad had grown more in recent years than in Germany, after the number of passengers in the Corona year 2020 had collapsed in both areas by 75 percent.
Domestic flights in particular were not resumed after the pandemic. German airports have long criticized that Germany is in the back of the recovery of air traffic in a European comparison and blame high state -influenced costs such as air traffic tax and security costs. Many airlines are no longer ready to fly from and to Germany.
Air freight almost at the pre -crisis level
Unlike in passenger traffic, the air freight volume in 2024 almost reached the pre-Corona level: with 4.7 million tons, a good two percent more freight was transported at the German main traffic airports than in 2023, according to the statisticians. Compared to 2019, the air freight volume was only 0.2 percent lower.
dpa
Source: Stern
