North Rhine-Westphalia: 1.7 million passengers take off from NRW airports in June

Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) - In the past month of June, 1.

North Rhine-Westphalia: 1.7 million passengers take off from NRW airports in June

Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) - In the past month of June, 1.7 million passengers flew from the six main airports in North Rhine-Westphalia. As the State Statistical Office reported on Friday based on preliminary data, that was 1.1 million passengers (up 187.7 percent) more than a year earlier (June 2021: 591,600), but around 18.5 percent fewer than in the last month of comparison Beginning of the corona pandemic. In June 2019, 2.1 million people took off from NRW Airports.

In June 2022, every fifth passenger transported commercially in Germany (19.6 percent) departed from one of the large NRW airports, the statisticians determined. 1.6 million people who departed from an NRW airport last June flew abroad. That was 1.0 million more than a year earlier, but the pre-Corona level has not yet been reached here either. According to statistics, this also applies to the number of passengers on domestic flights.