As bad as it has been in over 30 years: The Corona crisis is throwing Frankfurt Airport back decades. 

At just under 18,8 million passengers, the number of passengers was 73,4 percent lower than in the record year 2019, the airport operator Fraport announced on Monday in Frankfurt. This corresponds to the level from 1984. In December, Germany's largest commercial airport counted around 892.000 passengers, 81,7 percent fewer than in the same period of the previous year. Things went much better in the cargo business. In December, the volume of freight and airmail increased by 8,9 percent to 182.568 tons. However, if you look at the entire year, the bottom line is still a minus of 8,5 percent to a good 1,9 million tons. For the new year, Fraport boss Stefan Schulte expects a recovery in passenger traffic, especially in the second half of the year. Overall, according to his estimate, the number of passengers will only reach 35 to 45 percent of the record year 2019.