European airports 2020

Airports Council International (ACI) has published its traffic figures for the full year.  It is the only air traffic report that includes all types of commercial flights to, from and within Europe (full service, low-cost, regional, charter, full freight and others).

Europe’s airports lost 1.72bn passengers in 2020 compared to the previous year, a decrease of -70.4%.

Although its figures were awful Heathrow was not the worst, Frankfurt having that dubious honour, down 73.4% v 72.7%.  Amsterdam and Paris lost 70.9% and 70.8% respectively.  Istanbul, with its new airport was down by only 59.6%.  Overall freight traffic fell by 11.8%.  The figures are distorted somewhat as most airports had a good January and February.

Olivier Jankovec, director general of ACI Europe commented: “With just 728m passengers in 2020 compared to 2.4bn passengers in the previous year, Europe’s airports were back to their traffic levels of 1995.  No industry can on its own withstand such a shock. While some States have taken steps to financially support their airports, only €2.2bn has so far been earmarked for that purpose in Europe. This is less than 8% of the revenues airports lost last year.”

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