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Airport makes hard landing

2021-01-13T12:22:41.920Z


Crash in the Erdinger Moos: In the Corona year 2020, Munich Airport posted the blackest record since it opened in 1992.


Crash in the Erdinger Moos: In the Corona year 2020, Munich Airport posted the blackest record since it opened in 1992.

Munich - The number of take-offs and landings fell by a whopping 65 percent to 147,000, 270,000 fewer than a year earlier.

In total, only 11.1 million passengers used Germany's second largest airport.

A year earlier, a new record had been set at just under 48 million.

The skid mark is wide - the minus is 77 percent.

Flughafen München GmbH (FMG) presented this balance sheet on Wednesday.

In the summer, when air traffic was picking up again, FMG boss Jost Lammers, for whom it was a difficult first year, had hoped for twelve million passengers.

The result for freight is not quite as bleak.

151,000 tons were handled, about half less than in 2019.

The monthly comparison shows how much the global pandemic has affected the air hub.

Because more than half of all passengers were counted with six million in the two Corona-free months of January and February.

During the first lockdown, air traffic came to an almost complete standstill.

The numbers collapsed by over 90 percent in some cases.

In the summer there was a slight recovery due to tourist traffic, but the Christmas business almost failed again in the second wave.

"The around 90 airlines that regularly operate in Munich have massively reduced their services in 2020 or even temporarily stopped them", said an airport spokesman.

Lammers does not expect any improvement in the first quarter.

"It will be very, very tough," he told our newspaper.

He does not expect an upturn until early summer.

The entire industry relies on corona vaccinations.

"Only then can things go up again," says Lammers.

Traffic within Europe could then be the growth driver.

As before, 70 to 80 percent of the workforce is on short-time work.

After all, there is an emergency collective agreement that is intended to prevent redundancies due to operational reasons until the end of 2023.

“We need the employees when it picks up again,” says the group leader.

For the time being, no savings will be made on training either.

Some of the more than a dozen 14 larger construction projects will be continued, including the railway tunnel for the S-Bahn ring closure in the direction of Erding as well as the expansion of the eastern apron and Terminal 1. It will have a pier.

It is currently closed because of the slack in aviation, for the second time since the pandemic began.

All flights will be handled via Lufthansa Terminal 2 until further notice.

New corporate headquarters and hotel are on hold.

Lammers is expecting a “deep red business result” for the previous year.

FMG is currently drawing on its millions in profits in previous years.

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Source: merkur

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