{"id":118717,"date":"2022-01-17T13:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=118717"},"modified":"2023-03-03T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:16:38","slug":"geneva-cointrin-airport-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/geneva-cointrin-airport-2021","title":{"rendered":"Geneva-Cointrin airport still under the Covid effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air traffic at Geneva Cointrin<\/a><\/strong> remained marked by the Covid 19 pandemic in 2021. Geneva Airport will welcome 5.92 million passengers in 2021. <\/strong>compared with 5.60 million passengers in 2020. That's 5.8% more than in 2020, but 67% less passenger traffic than in 2019. That year, the airport reached a historic record of 17.926 million passengers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upturn in traffic is due to a rebound in demand in the second half of the year. <\/strong>The increase was particularly marked in July and August, with good passenger volumes until November, when the omicron variant appeared. In the first half of the year, passenger numbers had barely reached 13% of pre-crisis volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recovery in long-haul traffic<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The number of destinations served rose slightly to 139<\/strong>. But the airport notes that long-haul traffic has returned to all its pre-pandemic destinations<\/strong>. At the end of the year, the platform regained all its transatlantic routes. Latest announcement: Qatar Airways to return next March<\/strong>. Long-haul passengers benefit from the brand new East Wing<\/strong>inaugurated in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n