Frankfurt airport recorded its highest number of monthly flights for four years in October as traffic grew by 15 per cent compared to last year.
Fraport, which runs Germany’s largest hub airport, said that Frankfurt had catered for 5.7 million passengers last month, but this was still 12 per cent below traffic recorded in October 2019.
The airport handled 40,720 inbound and outbound flights during the month, which was the highest number in a single month since October 2019, although it was still 11.4 per cent down on the number of flights during that pre-Covid month.
Frankfurt has continued to lag other major European hubs in the speed of its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic – as a comparison, London Heathrow’s traffic of 6.96 million passengers in October was only 0.5 per cent below October 2019.
Fraport also runs several other European airports in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Slovenia, with some of the highest year-on-year growth being seen at Ljubljana in Slovenia where traffic shot up by 27.8 per cent.