From January to June 2025, the Association of German Airports (ADV) recorded 99.43 million passengers. passengers at German airports. That's +2.8 % more passengers than the previous year.
Nonetheless, passenger traffic is still 15.8% lower than in the same period of 2019. Total commercial aircraft movements, at 0.89 million, were 19.4% lower than in 2019. These two figures still place Germany at the bottom of the European rankings in terms of recovery.
ADV notes that at the absence of overhead lines Now, at the height of the tourist season, there is also a high level of hotel prices significantly higher. As a result, demand is depressed during the summer months.
Schengen and intercontinental in good shape
On domestic routesPassenger numbers continue to fall due to the price factor and the disappearance of many domestic flights. With 11.3 million passengers between January and June, this figure remains lower than 50% to its 2019 results. In fact, between the first half of 2024 and 2025, the number of passengers on domestic routes fell again by -1.2%.
European routes on the other hand, continue to grow. With 67.9 million passengers between January and June 2025, they rose by +3.2% compared with 2024. However, they are still -7.2% lower than in January-June 2019. However, traffic to theSchengen area remains dynamic. With 49.1 million passengers, it posted growth of +5,1 %.
From his side, intercontinental traffic saw the strongest growth, as close as possible to its pre-Covid level. With 19.9 million passengers, intercontinental up +3.8 1Q3 compared with last year. It is now just 2.7% behind its 2019 level...
Major airports stagnate, apart from Munich and Stuttgart
Airports, the strongest growth was recorded at leisure and low-cost airports. For example Karsruhe/Baden-Baden -55km from Strasbourg- grew by 30% to more than one million passengers in the first half of the year. Frankfurt-Hahn rose by 22% and Nuremberg of 10.1%.
On the other hand, progress was mixed for the major airports. Frankfurt, the Lufthansa Group's hub, grew by just +1.4 1TP3Q. A total of more than 29 million passengers. Düsseldorf was up 2.8%, Berlin of 2%, Cologne of 0.4% while Hamburg fell by 0.6%.
Only Munich and Stuttgart are exceptions. At Lufthansa's second hub, Traffic up 3.6% approaching 20 million passengers. In Stuttgart, traffic was up by 4.3%.
