Austria's airports only counted 9.3 million passengers in 2020. In the previous year it was 36.2 million.
Airport Wien-Schwechat.
The corona-related travel restrictions resulted in an unprecedented slump in the aviation industry over the past year. A total of only 9.3 million passengers were counted at the six Austrian airports, after 36.2 million in 2019.
This is the lowest number of passengers since 1992, said Statistics Austria Director General Tobias Thomas on Wednesday. At Vienna Airport alone, 23.8 million fewer passengers were recorded.
The airports in Klagenfurt (-76 percent to 49,395 passengers), Graz (-81 percent to 199,510 passengers) and Linz (-88 percent to 51,306 passengers) suffered the largest relative decreases in the number of passengers. In Vienna, the number of passengers has plummeted by 75 percent.
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The Innsbruck and Salzburg airports transport a large part of the passengers in winter and thus benefit from the first months of 2020 that have not yet been affected, according to Statistics Austria. They therefore recorded the smallest relative decreases. In Innsbruck the number of passengers fell by 57 percent to 487,437, in Salzburg by 61 percent to 669,790.
The vast majority (almost 86 percent) of the passengers departing from Austria headed for a destination in Europe. In particular, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and Greece were served. Outside Europe, most passengers were counted on destinations in the USA.
The most important destinations for scheduled services were London (234,696 passengers), Berlin (159,877 passengers) and Amsterdam (143,012 passengers). The most important charter destinations last year were Hurghada (19,686 passengers), London (17,762 passengers) and Manchester (11,449 passengers).
Two thirds fewer flights
With 114,428 flight movements in scheduled and charter traffic, there were 64 percent fewer take-offs and landings at Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz and Salzburg airports in 2020 than in the previous year. An average of 81 people were carried per flight, a decrease of around 28 percent.
Air freight traffic was significantly less affected by the corona pandemic than passenger aviation. The total air freight volume at all Austrian airports fell by around a quarter to 188,321 tons. The airmail volume fell by 60 percent to 6,605 tons.
