France: German airports welcomed more people last year than in 2019, surpassing pre-Covid rates for the first time since the pandemic, industry statistics showed on Wednesday.
According to Airports Council International (ACI) Europe’s (ACI) Europe ) provisional figures, passenger traffic reached 2.5 billion in 2024, an increase of 7.4 % from the previous year.
That full was 1.8 per share above 2019 degrees, said the deal group, which represents more than 600 terminals in 55 locations from northern Europe to Israel and Central Asia.
The number of local travelers increased by 2.5 percent from the previous month and remained below pre-pandemic rates, primarily due to increased international passenger prospects, which increased by 8.8 %.
” Europe’s flights welcomed an extra 200 million people last year, with many surpassing their prior traditional records”, said ACI Europe producer public Olivier Jankovec.
” This was achieved despite many inflated air tickets, continued offer forces, mostly sluggish economic growth and political tensions”, he added.
He noted, however, that almost half of Europe’s flights remained below their pre-Covid traffic levels in 2024.
The competition is” just keeping getting worse,” Jankovic said of the multi-speed European airports market.
He claimed that the organization is anticipating a four-percent increase in passenger visitors this year, but that it would have to keep it” under review, considering the enormous international political and economic uncertainties.”
