European airport passenger numbers 'falling off a cliff'

摘要

Europe's airport representative body, ACI Europe, released passenger statistics for March 2020 on April 9, in which it described traffic numbers as "falling off a cliff". ACI's figures show passenger traffic at Europe's airports fell by 59.5% during the month, dragging Q1 passenger traffic down by 21%. But while Europe's airports still handled 5,120,000 passengers on March 1 (-11.7% compared with the same day in 2019), that number had reduced to just 174,000 by March 31 (-97.1% compared with the same day in 2019). Olivier Jankovec, director general of ACI Europe, said: "This is like nothing we have seen before. In the global financial crisis, it took Europe's airports 12 months in 2009 to lose 100m passengers. With COVID-19, it just took 31 days - the month of March - for that same passenger volume and more to vanish."