2011: Increase of 9.3 million passengers at German airports
17-Feb-2012 As reported by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis) the number of departing and arriving passengers at German airports amounted to 175.2 million travellers in 2011; with a growth of 5.6% this result reflects an increase of 5.6% from 2010.
Whereas traffic within Germany was characterized by a moderate growth-rate (+1.4%) frontier crossing services (150.9 million passengers) saw an increase of 6.3%. Traffic with European countries which covers more than three quarters of international in- and outbound traffic grew by 8.4.
Intercontinental traffic (33.7 million) went slightly down (-0.4%) mainly caused by traffic with Africa (-16.6%) where double-digit plunges were reported for Tunisia (-35.3%) and Egypt (-28.1%). On the other hand passenger flows with America and Asia grew by 4.4 respectively 2.5%.