Press release No. 293 of 24 August 2017
WIESBADEN – In the first half of 2017, the number of passengers departing from German airports rose by 6.4% to 55.2 million. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of air passengers departing to foreign countries increased by 7.6% to 43.2 million between January and June 2017. The number of domestic air passengers increased by 2.3% to 11.9 million, while the number of air passengers travelling to other European countries was up 7.1% to just under 33.8 million.