Nuremberg Airport had around 2023 million passengers in 3,9, 20 percent more than in the same period last year. According to official information, capacity utilization is said to have been at a record level with an average of 80 percent.

However, the volume that Nuremberg had in 2019 has not yet been achieved. Around four percent were still missing in the 12 months of 2023. Nevertheless, the situation is significantly better than many other German airports, because some, for example Berlin-Brandenburg and Stuttgart, are still a long way from the values ​​they had before the corona pandemic.

The most popular destination from Nuremberg in 2023 was Antalya, Turkey, with over half a million (505.700) passengers for the first time, up 21 percent compared to the previous year. Mallorca follows with around 430.000 passengers. Third to fifth place is occupied by the hub airports of Istanbul with around 225.400, Frankfurt with around 206.800 and Amsterdam with around 168.000 passengers. While tourist traffic remained almost constant, the low-cost sector increased by around 35 percent. Traffic within Germany no longer exists (with the exception of the Frankfurt hub connection). Before the pandemic in 2019, around 454.000 passengers (Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich) were counted in this segment.

Capacity utilization across all transport segments was around 2023 percent in 82. For comparison: in 2022 it was around 79 percent and in 2019 it was around 75 percent. This means that the aircraft that took off and landed in Nuremberg in 2023 were better booked than ever before in the history of the airport.

The trend is also towards ever longer flight routes. For example, the average route length last year was around 1.300 kilometers, in 2019 it was around 940 kilometers and in 2009 it was only around 660 kilometers. At the same time, fewer take-offs and landings were carried out and larger aircraft were used: with around 33.200 commercial flight movements in 2023, almost 11 percent fewer were flown than in 2019 with around 37.200 take-offs and landings - and with almost the same number of passengers.