Frankfurt Airport (FRA) cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) grew for the second consecutive month in November – up 4.3% year-on-year to 194,619 tonnes.
November numbers for passenger throughput at 656,420 represented an 87% decrease compared to the same month last year. FRA’s cumulative traffic during the January-to-November 2020 period fell by 72.8%, due to the ongoing strict travel restrictions amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Aircraft movements declined by 67.0% to 12,803 takeoffs and landings in the reporting month, while accumulated maximum takeoff weights (MTOWs) contracted by 57.1% to some 1.0 million metric tons.
Across the Group, the airports in Fraport’s international portfolio continued to report varying traffic performance in November 2020 – depending on the pandemic situation in their respective country or region.
In Slovenia, traffic at Ljubljana Airport (LJU) plummeted by 95.0% year-on-year to 4,258 passengers. The Brazilian airports of Fortaleza (FOR) and Porto Alegre (POA), combined, saw traffic drop by 48.7% to a total of 675,602 passengers. Peru’s Lima Airport (LIM) registered a 72.8% dip in traffic to 532,522 passengers.
At the 14 Greek regional airports, combined traffic fell by 84.3% to 114,158 passengers in November 2020. On the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, the Twin Star airports of Burgas (BOJ) and Varna (VAR) welcomed a total of 23,765 passengers, down 71.6% year-on-year.
Traffic at Antalya Airport (AYT) in Turkey shrank by 61.7% year-on-year to 521,610 passengers in the reporting month. Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St. Petersburg, Russia, registered a 40.2% traffic drop to 821,409 passengers. In China, Xi’an Airport (XIY) received around 2.4 million passengers, down 35.4% year-on-year.
