Frankfurt airport recorded its highest month-to-month passenger site visitors in August because the begin of the pandemic in early 2020.
The German hub, which capped the variety of flights this summer season to “stabilise” operations, catered for five.2 million passengers final month, which was a 54 per cent enhance on the identical month in 2021, however was nonetheless 25 per cent decrease than in August 2019.
Fraport, which operates Frankfurt airport, mentioned it has “maintained its speedy development momentum from the previous few months”, with the full variety of inbound and outbound flights rising by 24.6 per cent year-on-year to simply below 36,000 companies throughout August.
As a comparability, considered one of Frankfurt’s predominant rivals in Europe, London Heathrow, noticed its site visitors attain six million travellers in August, which was down by greater than 20 per cent on pre-Covid ranges because the UK airport continues to cap departing passengers at 100,000 per day.
One other main European hub, Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, has skilled extra operational difficulties this week, with an absence of safety workers resulting in the airport asking a number of airways to cancel flights on Monday (12 September).
“After weeks of enchancment, Schiphol didn’t count on to need to take these measures once more,” mentioned the airport in an announcement.
“Schiphol regrets the scenario that has arisen and understands the frustration and frustration that it could entail for airways and travellers.”
Fraport additionally operates 14 regional airports in Greece, which have already collectively surpassed their 2019 passenger numbers, illustrating once more how leisure journey and smaller airports have typically recovered extra shortly than the continent’s main hubs.