Innsbruck Airport clearly felt the effects of the corona pandemic in the previous year. There were 125.495 passengers and 2.010 flight movements in scheduled and charter traffic. It was therefore still well below the pre-crisis level.

Winter business is particularly important for Innsbruck, because the majority of the annual turnover is made with charter flights, which are mainly used by people who spend their winter holidays in Tyrol. In contrast to 2020, the ski season with tourists was actually canceled in the previous year. As a result, the airport only had 15.000 passengers in the first half of 2020. Usually this is the case on good Saturdays in winter.

Things went better in summer 2021. The holiday offers from Innsbruck were very well received by Tyroleans during this period, but also by passengers from the neighboring regions, and the number of passengers developed much better than in the summer of the previous year.

In autumn, the four-week runway closure necessary for the general renovation of the runway and then the renewed lockdown slowed down the development of passenger numbers again significantly. With the start of the winter season in mid-December, however, an upswing was recorded towards the end of the year, and December 2021 was by far the month with the highest number of passengers in the year as a whole.

As a result, a total of 2021 annual passengers and 125.495 flight movements in scheduled and charter traffic were recorded in 2.010. The annual result for the number of passengers corresponds to a minus of almost 90 percent compared to 2019: “After the failure of the winter season, it was already clear at the beginning of the year that this would be a very difficult year. So I'm all the more pleased that after the successful piste renovation in autumn, the start of this year's winter season went better than expected. That gives hope for further development, ”says airport manager Marco Pernetta.

Around 10.000 passengers were handled at the airport on the first weekend in January. High hopes are now being placed at the airport in the two main months of February and March.

Summer 2022: Innsbruck is optimistic

Pernetta looks to the coming months with confidence: “With all the major challenges and uncertainties, we remain optimistic that the airport will soon recover. The desire to travel is unbroken, people want to go on vacation. "

The 2022 summer flight program from Innsbruck will again be offering the most beautiful holiday destinations in the Mediterranean: Sardinia, Calabria, Brac, Mallorca and the top Greek destinations Chalkidiki, Crete, Kalamata, Kavala (new), Kefalonia, Kos, Preveza / Lefkas and Rhodes.

The year-round Frankfurt route is returning in regular service. From May 2, 2022, this will be carried out three times a day by the Lufthansa subsidiary Air Dolomiti. International and intercontinental connections are then again optimally possible with the connection to one of the largest aviation hubs in Europe.

In addition to the year-round connections to Amsterdam, Berlin, London and Vienna, direct line connections to Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Helsinki can be booked in the summer of 2022. “Contact a travel agent of your choice for bookings. Especially in uncertain times, you will find the perfect advice there for an all-round carefree holiday ”, recommends Pernetta in conclusion.