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Erfurt (dpa / th) - The airport in Erfurt continues to serve as the base for flights that supply Germany with masks and other goods to contain the corona pandemic.
A machine that had loaded 2.5 million FFP-2 protective masks in Shanghai, China, landed on Tuesday evening, the airport announced on Wednesday.
The Airbus of a Portuguese airline had around 24 tons of equipment on board, which was intended for drugstores and retail chains not only in Thuringia.
Airport boss Gerd Stöwer sees this as a further indication that Erfurt is increasingly establishing itself as a freight airport, especially for express freight, for airlines and logistics providers.
The Airbus will continue to fly to Tokyo on Thursday.
The airport in Thuringia's state capital, which was actually designed primarily for charter traffic to international holiday regions, has a 2600 meter long runway, modern infrastructure and is in operation 24 hours a day.
Currently there is only freight traffic.
The area in Erfurt-Bindersleben is also used by the Airbus Group to park aircraft that cannot be delivered.
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Like other international airports in Germany, Erfurt should receive a financial injection from the federal government to keep the airport open at the beginning of the corona pandemic last year.
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