In the previous year Innsbruck Airport had 721.421 passengers. In a direct comparison with 2021, it was possible to increase by 475 percent, but it was around 34 percent below the value that could be achieved before the corona pandemic.

In 2019 Innsbruck Airport had around 1,14 million passengers. According to the management, the strongest steps on the way to recovery were made in summer outgoing traffic and in the third quarter of 2022. With 7.450 movements in scheduled and charter flights, flight movements are at a level comparable to the end of the 1980s (!) or around 38 percent below the level of 2019.

"In the first four months there was no connection to Frankfurt," says Airport Director Marco Pernetta. "All the more gratifying was the resumption of the Frankfurt route with the Lufthansa subsidiary Air Dolomiti, which has again been offering three daily flights to/from Frankfurt since May 2022. In the future, the offer will even be increased to up to four flights per day”.

For the first time, the airlines with the largest number of passengers were Transavia and EasyJet, both of which, in addition to an intensive winter flight program, also offer two year-round destinations with London Gatwick and Amsterdam from/to Innsbruck. In fact, last year around every fourth passenger was on a flight from one of the London airports to Innsbruck, which means that the London area was the most important source market for Innsbruck Airport in 2022.

"We were particularly pleased," says Pernetta, "that since December 2022 there has also been a Paris connection with the Air France subsidiary Hop Airlines in our flight schedule for the first time". For the time being, the two connections per week (Saturday and Sunday) to Paris' largest airport, Charles-de-Gaulle, are planned until the end of March, but negotiations are already underway about a new version in winter 23/24 and a continuation of the route in summer 24.

The bookings for the summer vacation 2023 are already in full swing in the travel agencies. Greece, Italy and Spain continue to be popular as attractive and easily accessible summer destinations. The long-standing Tyrolean tour operator partners Christophorus and Idealtours as well as Innsbruck's largest tour operator, TUI Austria, will again be offering a wide range of travel products from Innsbruck next summer, which will certainly cover all holiday wishes. In any case, the demand in travel agencies is high.

After many years, the holiday island of Corsica is now offered directly from Innsbruck by the Vorarlberg tour operator and Corsica expert Rhomberg Reisen. From the end of April to the beginning of October we go to Calvi on Sundays.