Historic low: For April this year, the statistics of passenger numbers at Bremen Airport show only 102 passengers. (Frank Thomas Koch)
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The airports in Northern Germany are slowly starting up again. Many airlines are gradually expanding their routes after weeks of downtime. The Hans Koschnick Airport in Bremen also benefits from this. For a few days now Wizzair with the destination Vienna and the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings with the destination Stuttgart have started again.
The first thing Lufthansa flew to Munich was a good two weeks ago. Since then it has been in operation on six days, and from the middle of this month there should be twelve flights a week. Then it goes to Frankfurt again, seven times a week. Ryanair announced on Thursday that it would be flying to seven destinations in Europe from Bremen in early July. “This is good news for us,” commented Bremen airport boss Elmar Kleinert. From the beginning of July, Ryanair holiday planes will return to Mallorca, Alicante, Malaga and Thessaloniki. The other airlines will follow little by little.
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Behind the Hans Koschnick Airport are weeks full of bad news after the year had started well with increasing passenger numbers. But then Corona came and let the passenger numbers drop. 73,000 passengers in March were halved compared to March 2019. The month of April saw an all-time low. The statistics for April show 102 passengers, compared to 211,000 passengers a month earlier this month.
2020 is likely to be the year with the lowest passenger numbers since the late 1970s. “We assume that we will have around 600,000 passengers in 2020,” said an airport spokeswoman. That is around 1.7 million fewer than last year. “In the end it depends on how quickly passenger traffic starts again,” the spokeswoman continued. Almost all airlines want to fly from Bremen again by the end of July.
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The Stralsund airline Sundair, for example, is planning to head to its destinations in Antalya, Fuerteventura, Palma and Rhodes from July 14th, just in time for the start of the summer vacation. Turkish Airlines is expected to resume operations in Bremen at the end of June, the low-cost airlines Pegasus, Sun Express and Corendon in July. Eurowings plans to fly to Mallorca again in July. KLM and Air France will be the last to join again in August.
The increased resumption will not change the dramatic loss of sales of 33 million euros by the end of the year. By June 2021, the airport will need 28 million euros to remain operational. The majority of the 450-strong workforce has been on short-time work since the end of March.
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Bremen is not alone in its worries and problems. Hanover also complains of burglaries to an unprecedented extent. “We will probably have to accept a mid double-digit million loss this year,” said an airport spokeswoman at the request of the WESER-KURIER. Just like in Bremen, scheduled flights are now slowly starting up again in the state capital of Lower Saxony. From Hanover, there are now daily flights to Frankfurt and Munich.
Air traffic is getting going again in Hamburg. By the end of this month, around 40 travel destinations should be directly accessible from Hamburg. “New connections are added almost daily,” spokeswoman Katja Bromm said. There are already flights to Palma, Vienna, London and Zurich. From the end of June, destinations such as Ibiza, Tenerife or Crete will also be on the flight schedule.
Many innovations
The passengers have to be prepared for many innovations. Mouth and nose protection is mandatory in the airport buildings and in the airplanes. Hygiene and clearance rules apply. Service on board has shut down. Boarding takes place in several small groups. Even at larger airports like Hamburg, the route from the gate to the plane should be covered on foot if possible. According to the airport, if a bus transfer via the tarmac is unavoidable, the maximum number of passengers per bus will be limited and more vehicles will be used to ensure distance.
The example of Tuifly shows how much the travel industry is in crisis. The holiday pilot, which belongs to the Tui Group, wants to cut its fleet of 39 jets in half and close locations. Nothing changes for Bremen: the company is no longer present here. There are still old contracts with some employees, in which Bremen is registered as a location, said a Tui spokesman. In fact, these employees would have been working elsewhere for a long time, for example in Hanover.
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