The collapse of air traffic in 2020, as a result of the Covid crisis, strongly affected the economic and financial situation of airport operators and of the entire sector chain. The data transmitted by the management companies made it possible to estimate an overall economic loss suffered by the system of over 1 billion euros, in the period March-September 2020 alone. This is what emerges from a Focus on 'The management of the pandemic from Covid-19 'contained in the Enac Report and Social Budget 2020, which is presented today. During 2020, air traffic was strongly affected by the crisis triggered by the epidemiological emergency from COVID-19 which caused a strong contraction, in line with what was recorded in the rest of the world: there were 52,759.724 passengers passed through Italian airports in 2020, between national and international traffic, with a decrease of -72.5% compared to 2019. These are the numbers of the Enac 2020 Report and Social Budget, which confirm the data already released by the Entity in April.
In particular, national traffic, with its 25 million passengers recorded a more moderate decrease, -61.1%, compared to international traffic, 78.3%, with a total of approximately 27,700,000 passengers. The ranking of the first carriers operating in Italy sees the Irish low cost Ryanair in first place (11,836,904 passengers), followed with just over half of the passengers by Alitalia (6,514,579); third EasyJet (3.5 million passengers). Alitalia, however, slightly surpasses Ryanair in the ranking of the first carriers for national traffic (4,388,984 passengers carried by the former national airline against 4,081,277 for low cost). Finally, looking at the airports with the highest number of passengers, Rome Fiumicino is confirmed in first place with 9.7 million (-77.5% from 2019), followed by Milan Malpensa (7.2 million, -74,9%) and Bergamo (3.83 million, -72.2%).
