Frankfurt Airport has announced it handled 882,869 passengers in January 2021, a decline of 80.9 per cent on the same month last year.
The airports in operator Fraport’s international portfolio all experienced traffic reductions compared to the same month last year.
Slovenia’s Ljubljana Airport saw traffic sink by 93.5 per cent year-on-year to 4,923 passengers. In Brazil, Fortaleza and Porto Alegre registered combined traffic of 796,698 passengers, down by 47.0 per cent compared to January 2020. Traffic at Peru’s Lima Airport dipped by 62.2 per cent to 775,447 travellers.
Total traffic figures for the 14 Greek regional airports declined by 82.7 per cent to 108,907 passengers in January 2021. The airports of Burgas and Varna in Bulgaria together received 22,177 passengers, down 73.4 per cent year-on-year. Traffic at Antalya Airport in Turkey shrank by 68.6 per cent to 290,999 passengers. Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg, Russia, welcomed 925,306 passengers, down 30.3 per cent. More than 2.2 million passengers travelled through China’s Xi’an Airport in January 2021, a 36.2 per cent drop compared to the same month in 2020.
A poll by Germany's VDR recently revealed that more German companies were allowing unlimited business travel.