Today the Antonov AN-225, the largest aircraft in the world, landed at Leipzig / Halle Airport (LEJ). There were over 500 pallets on board with around 3,5 million corona tests. Another flight of the AN-225 is planned for the coming weeks.

It is the 30th use of the unique specimen at the Central German airport. This makes LEJ one of the most frequent airports in the world served by the AN-225. The machine was unloaded by PortGround, the subsidiary of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG specializing in aircraft and cargo handling. Leipzig / Halle Airport is a central transshipment point for medical goods in the fight against the corona pandemic. As the second largest air cargo transshipment point in Germany, the airport secures important logistics and supply chains across Europe. In the past few months - in addition to regular traffic - over 100 cargo charter flights with millions of corona tests have been processed. Dozens of more transports are expected by the end of the year.

The freight volume at Leipzig / Halle Airport, Europe's fourth largest air freight hub, has been growing continuously for 16 years. In October of this year the airport recorded a new high of 141.173 tons. For the first ten months of this year, cargo throughput showed an increase of 1,3 percent to around 16,9 million tons.