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Frankfurt / Langen (dpa) - The freight hub Leipzig / Halle was the second busiest airport in Germany after Frankfurt in January.
The East German airport registered only a good 10 percent less air traffic during the year in the Corona crisis, according to the German Air Traffic Control (DFS) on Thursday.
For comparison: the Munich passenger hub recorded a decline of 84 percent.
The international airports in Germany registered 72.3 percent fewer take-offs and landings in the year, but were hit differently due to the different proportion of the still flourishing cargo.
Overall, the ongoing corona crisis paralyzed air traffic in Germany.
"The year 2021 starts even worse than last year ended," said the managing director responsible for pilot operations at DFS, Dirk Mahns.
The federal air traffic control established in 1993 registered only 74,543 take-offs, landings and overflights in that month, 68.1 percent less than a year before and fewer than ever in DFS history.
In December 2020 there were still 85,000 flight movements.
In January, the Frankfurt airport operator Fraport counted 882,869 passengers at Germany's largest aviation hub, 80.9 percent fewer than a year earlier, according to the company listed in the MDax.
As early as December, the volume fell by 81.7 percent year-on-year.
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Many airlines have reacted to the lockdowns in numerous countries and further reduced their flight offers, which were already capped, in recent weeks.
Things continued to go much better in the cargo business.
In January, the volume of freight and airmail in Frankfurt increased year-on-year by 18.1 percent to 176,266 tons.
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