Flight volume in Zurich still 10 percent below pre-corona level
Published: Wednesday, Jan 3rd 2024, 11:01
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The volume of traffic at Zurich Airport increased again in 2023: Compared to the previous year, the increase amounted to 14.5%. This is still around 10% short of the 2019 level before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
A total of 241,005 aircraft took off and landed in Zurich last year, according to figures from the airport website analyzed by the news agency AWP. In 2019, the figure was 268,968 aircraft.
In the course of the travel restrictions to contain the coronavirus pandemic, flight movements slumped to just 40 percent of the 2019 level in 2020. Since then, air traffic has steadily recovered - in 2022, the gap to 2019 was still around a fifth.
Respectable year-end spurt
The highest traffic volume in 2023 was achieved at the start of the autumn holidays on October 6, when a total of 831 flights were operated to and from Zurich. In terms of months, the summer holiday month of July is still ahead of October.
However, the final spurt in December was also impressive: The airport recorded a total of 18,682 flight movements in the Christmas month - around 8 percent more than in the previous year. This means that December was only around 6 percent short of the pre-crisis level. The peak day in December was Friday, December 22.
Zurich Airport will publish detailed passenger and traffic figures for December and for the year as a whole on January 15, 2024.
The flight movement figures at Zurich Airport used for this article are based on daily updated statistics, in which all flights are recorded according to instrument flight rules. This so-called IFR traffic includes scheduled flights as well as cargo, business and private flights. The number of flight movements says nothing about the size of the aircraft handled or their capacity utilization.
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