Press release No. 057 of 22 February 2018
WIESBADEN – Approximately 117.6 million passengers boarded flights from the 24 largest commercial airports in Germany in 2017. This is the highest number since records began. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the yearly growth rate rose again in 2017, to +5.1% from +3.4% in the previous year. Each calendar day, an average of roughly 322,000 passengers boarded planes, a figure almost equal to the population of Bonn.
