At Basel Airport, the extended summer holiday season, which had spanned several weeks across the trinational catchment area, ended last weekend. In the last ten weeks, passenger volumes reached around 96% of the 2019 level.
Despite the impact of major delays due to limited air traffic control capacity and bad weather, operations largely ran smoothly. New slot coordination and the ECRA procedure, which optimizes flight planning in real time with Eurocontrol, helped to stabilize operations.