European airport data confirms summer rebound
A raft of passenger statistics from the European airports sector provides further evidence of resurgent passenger demand across the continent. As part of its six month data release, airport trade body ACI Europe notes a massive fall in the continent’s passenger numbers through the first half of the year against the same period pre-pandemic, down by 76.9% across the European airport network. Compared to the same period last year this represents a fall of 36.2%, with facilities in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland falling behind their counterparts in Russia and Turkey, where demand has been bolstered by domestic traffic. However, the data also highlights a significant uptick for July, with traffic down a relatively mild 51% across Europe for the month compared with 2019, and total passenger volumes doubling from the same month in 2020. “The improvement in passenger traffic started gaining some real momentum only over the month of July,” comments the group. “This was clearly facilitated by the EU Digital Covid Certificates as well as the UK and Ireland better aligning their travel regime with the rest of Europe, and finally accepting that vaccinated travellers do not need to quarantine.”<br/>
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European airport data confirms summer rebound
A raft of passenger statistics from the European airports sector provides further evidence of resurgent passenger demand across the continent. As part of its six month data release, airport trade body ACI Europe notes a massive fall in the continent’s passenger numbers through the first half of the year against the same period pre-pandemic, down by 76.9% across the European airport network. Compared to the same period last year this represents a fall of 36.2%, with facilities in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland falling behind their counterparts in Russia and Turkey, where demand has been bolstered by domestic traffic. However, the data also highlights a significant uptick for July, with traffic down a relatively mild 51% across Europe for the month compared with 2019, and total passenger volumes doubling from the same month in 2020. “The improvement in passenger traffic started gaining some real momentum only over the month of July,” comments the group. “This was clearly facilitated by the EU Digital Covid Certificates as well as the UK and Ireland better aligning their travel regime with the rest of Europe, and finally accepting that vaccinated travellers do not need to quarantine.”<br/>
