According to the Federal Statistical Office, during the summer 2018 timetable from April to October, 80.5 million people departed from Germany's main airports.
That was 2.4 million people or three percent more than the year before, as the authorities in Wiesbaden reported. But the boom was not equally spread.
The number of flights from Germany to other countries has risen. Between April and October, 66.2 million people traveled to other countries, a good 4.3 percent more than in the 2017 summer flight schedule.
More passengers were counted among the tourist destinations in North Africa and Turkey (5.63 million), where the political crises of previous years have receded. Tunisia (337,000) grew by 49.6 percent and Egypt (1.17 million) by 38.3 percent.
The number of passengers to Turkey grew by 20.1 percent and neighboring Greece (3.45 million) also increased significantly with 15 percent.
Spain, the main tourist destination, still had close to 10.5 million tourists, a growth of 1.8 percent. The Canary Islands (1.73 million) had 1.7 percent fewer passengers than the year before.
Other losers were the US (minus 6.7 percent, 3.59 million) and the Caribbean Islands (minus 12.6 percent, 411,000) - as well as the inner-German air traffic, which lost 2.3 percent (14.3 million). This reflects the bankruptcy of Air Berlin, which at the beginning of the year 2018 had led to a smaller domestic German flight schedule.
Source: jus/dpa/AFP/Spiegel
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