After the record year 2019 (1.346.750 passengers), Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden Airport was not spared a massive decline in passenger numbers in the Corona year: around 401.000 passengers used the FKB for their air travel in 2020. This means that the airport has to accept a decrease of around 70 percent compared to the previous year.
However, there was only a 15,6 percent decline in flight movements. "Even though air traffic is still in the midst of this serious crisis, I expect a slight recovery in passenger numbers. With the availability of the vaccine, people's desire to travel will also increase again. The demand for travel, whether private or business, as well as the offers from airlines will increase. Under these conditions, we are planning on around 700.000 passengers at the airport in 2021," said new managing director Uwe Kotzan, who has been in charge of the airport since January 2021. The volume of air freight, on the other hand, increased by 2020 percent to 2019 tons in 55,7 compared to 1.915. "This positive development in air freight at FKB will continue in 2021 thanks to the two new freight lines to Dublin and Birmingham," said Uwe Kotzan.
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