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78 percent of the pre-corona level: German air traffic lags behind the European trend

2023-01-06T19:54:01.351Z


There will be more flights again - air traffic to and from Germany is likely to remain below the pre-Corona level in the first half of 2023. This is apparently also due to road and rail.


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Frankfurt am Main Airport (picture from March 2021): International air traffic is improving again

Photo: Boris Roessler / dpa

Air traffic to and from Germany should reach around 78 percent of the supply before the corona pandemic in the first half of 2023.

From January to June 2023, the airlines' seats on all flights from, to and in Germany totaled 107.7 million, according to the BDL industry association, the Federal Association of the German Aviation Industry.

The strongest recovery from pre-crisis levels is evident on long-haul routes, where traffic to and from North America is the most important driver.

It is currently still unclear how air traffic with China will develop due to Corona.

Germany is lagging behind the development in Europe, where the number of seats has already reached 91 percent compared to 2019, as the (BDL) explained.

The recovery of air traffic within Germany, on the other hand, is stagnating at just 56 percent of 2019. »The shift in traffic to road and rail is noticeable here, among other things.«

Recovery of intercontinental traffic

The traffic offer at Frankfurt, Germany's largest airport hub, will develop at an above-average rate in the next six months.

Compared to the first half of 2019, 84 percent of the seats are offered there.

The reason is the particularly strong recovery in intercontinental traffic: "Frankfurt is the most important location in Germany for transfer passengers on long-haul flights." The number of seats available at the second important hub in Munich has reached 76 percent of the pre-corona level.

In contrast, the offer at other large airports such as Düsseldorf and Hamburg is below average.

Berlin, in particular, is lagging behind and has only reached 61 percent of the pre-crisis level in terms of seating.

The decisive factors are, among other things, high location costs, a partially greatly reduced offer from the so-called point-to-point airlines such as the low-cost airlines Ryanair and Easyjet and the further shift of traffic to road and rail.

Regional airports such as Dortmund, Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Memmingen and Niederrhein/Weeze are recovering comparatively well.

According to the BDL, they benefit from the expansion of the presence of low-cost airlines at smaller locations.

In recent months, climate activists have tried again and again to draw attention to the climate crisis with their actions at airports.

For example, they protested at Berlin Airport BER against the climate damage of flights.

Read here what a ban on short-haul flights would bring.

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Source: spiegel

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