Passenger business at Frankfurt Airport weakened somewhat after the end of the summer vacation.
The airport operator Fraport counted around 3.1 million passengers in September, around 169 percent more than a year earlier, as it announced in Frankfurt on Wednesday.
In August, the company had almost 3.4 million passengers at Germany's largest airport, more than in any other month since the beginning of the Corona crisis.
Frankfurt / Main - In September the number of passengers was still 54 percent lower than before the pandemic in September 2019.
Meanwhile, the cargo business continued to boom: the volume of freight and airmail increased by a good 13.5 percent to 184,558 tons compared to September 2020.
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At the beginning of September, Fraport boss Stefan Schulte had already predicted a “difficult winter” for the passenger business.
For the current year, he expects a total of “under 20 to 25 million” passengers in Frankfurt.
In 2020, the volume fell to less than 19 million after the airport had a record year in 2019 with more than 70 million passengers.
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