The rush of passengers to Düsseldorf Airport at the start of the vacation in North Rhine-Westphalia also had an impact in Frankfurt at the weekend.
The airline Pegasus had relocated flights to Turkey from Düsseldorf to Münster, Cologne / Bonn and Frankfurt at short notice for Saturday.
However, one of the flights from Frankfurt to Antalya could no longer take off before the start of the night flight ban.
Jochen Remmert
Airport editor and correspondent Rhein-Main-Süd.
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The passengers had to leave the plane again and could only start the journey to Turkey on Sunday around 2.30 p.m., as a spokesman for the federal police announced.
Unlike in Düsseldorf, where there was talk of rioting passengers, those affected in Frankfurt are said to have remained calm.
Federal police escorted them back to the terminal.
Regardless of this, Germany's largest airport was already showing signs of a sharp increase in passenger numbers this weekend, two weeks before the start of the summer holidays in Hesse.
According to the federal police, around 95,000 passengers were counted on Saturday, and around 100,000 on Sunday.
Before the start of the corona pandemic, more than 240,000 passengers were counted in one day at Frankfurt Airport immediately before the start of the summer holidays.