In November, 6,400 passengers were handled in Dresden. This corresponds to a decrease of 94.5 percent compared to 2019. It is similar in Leipzig.
Dresden – The number of air travelers at the two Saxon airports is Corona-decided further drastically decreased.
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View of the terminal of Dresden International Airport. © Lutz Hentschel
In November, the decrease in passenger numbers at Dresden and Leipzig / Halle airports was more than 90 percent in each case compared to the same month last year. That comes from the latest figures from the airport association ADV from Friday.
Dresden Airport counted just under 6400 passengers last month (-94.5 percent), in Leipzig / Halle it was around 6500. This corresponds to a decrease of almost 96 percent.
Since the beginning of the year, around 377,000 people have arrived or left Dresden, in Leipzig / Halle just under 525,000 – a drop of more than 70 percent in each case.
“The picture at Germany’s airports is still bleak, the traffic volume is stuck in lockdown,” said Ralph Beisel, the chief executive of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV).
“The airports work far from any economic efficiency.”
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At the same time, Dresden Airport had to forego numerous cargo flights in November.
According to the information, only around 500 aircraft took off and landed with air freight – a decrease of around 68 percent. Nationwide, this area had declined by an average of 69 percent.
In Leipzig / Halle, on the other hand, the minus was comparatively low in a Germany-wide comparison: after all, there were more than 4900 cargo flights in November. That was 13.4 percent less than in the same month last year.
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