Munich Airport has released that 2019 total traffic increased by 1.7 million, or four percent, to 47.9 million passengers. For the Bavarian hub, this result represents the tenth consecutive record-setting year for total passenger traffic. The number of take-offs and landings was up by around one percent to over 417,000 aircraft movements.
Airlines substantially increased the number of destinations served especially in the intercontinental segment, which saw a year-on-year rise of over six percent in take-offs and landings to a total of approximately 34,000 and an impressive nine percent increase in total passengers.
In European traffic, the passenger numbers were around four percent higher. Meanwhile, the number of passengers on domestic routes within Germany again declined by around 1%.