Corona broke Nuremberg's 40 million euros loss
The corona pandemic resulted in a loss of 40 million euros for Nuremberg Airport last year. The austerity measures initiated by management were able to minimize the shortfall, but not prevent it. The loss was limited thanks to the management's early reaction and determined implementation of savings in investments, personnel and material costs. Since April 2020, the instrument of short-time work has been used extensively in almost all areas of the group to preserve jobs until the pandemic is overcome. A voluntary program was launched in order to adapt the workforce to the lower traffic volume in the future. 78 percent fewer passengers In 2020, 917.296 passengers used Nuremberg Albrecht Dürer Airport for business and vacation trips or to visit their families and relatives. The decrease of around 78 percent compared to the previous year is a result of pandemic-related travel restrictions. The last time fewer than one million passengers were counted at Nuremberg Airport was in 1985. Passenger traffic was distributed as follows: Traffic within Europe fell by 77,8 percent to 704.000 passengers. Traffic to destinations outside Europe fell by 66.000 percent to just under 69,0 passengers, performing slightly better than the airports in the airport association ADV, which averaged -77,1 percent. After a promising start to the year with slight growth in January and February 2020, the Corona pandemic led to a sharp decline in passenger numbers from March onwards, and shortly afterwards even to a complete cessation of commercial passenger air traffic until mid-June 2020. The 2020 travel summer fell short of expectations.
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