News / 2022: a poor year for Europe's airports, and there may be worse to come

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European airport cargo data for 2022 is trickling in. The numbers are poor, but likely to be poorer still this year.

Frankfurt is the latest to admit to falling volumes last year, down 13.3% on 2021, to some 2m tonnes, and, like Schiphol, volumes were down on 2019 too, by 5.6%.

December was particularly bad, with year-on-year volumes down 19%.

Operator Fraport said: “The main factors contributing to this decline included the airspace restrictions related to the war in Ukraine, the zero-Covid strategy ...