According to the industry association ADV, German airports were used by 2024 million passengers in January 12,3. This means that the airports had 1,28 million fewer passengers than in December 2023. In direct comparison with the same month last year, German airports were able to increase by 11,8 percent, but these were still 22,6 percent below the volume they had before the corona pandemic. The ADV notes that Germany is far behind other European countries in terms of recovering from the crisis. It is around 15 percent below the EU average. It also points out that in some countries the passenger numbers that they had before the pandemic have not only been reached again, but even exceeded. Compared to January 2023, there were recently 4,9 percent more commercial flight movements in Germany. 117.659 movements were counted in the first month of the current year. This corresponds to approximately 71,7 percent of the value achieved in January 2019. What is particularly striking is that domestic traffic in Germany has continued to decline sharply. Although it was able to increase by 14,7 percent compared to the same month last year, the volume of domestic traffic in Germany is only about half of what it was before the Corona pandemic. This could also be due to the fact that numerous routes have been discontinued, providers such as Easyjet have largely withdrawn from domestic traffic and prices on the routes that have been reduced have in some cases increased sharply. In European traffic, there were a total of 2024 million passengers in January 7,66. This represents 82,6 percent of the figure that was achieved before the Corona pandemic.