Toscana Aeroporti, 2.8 million passengers in 2021
For the Galilei airports of Pisa and Vespucci of Florence, traffic still affected by the effects of the Covid-19 emergency: + 43% on 2020 and -66% on 2019
PISA – In 2021 travel restrictions applied by various countries to limit the spread of pandemism continued to significantly affect the performance of passenger traffic at the two Tuscan airports, il Galilei of Pisa and the Vespucci of Florence Peretola, which has always been characterized by a strong preference for incoming international tourism. Toscana Aeroporti thus closed the year with 2,837,162 passengersin decrease of 66% compared to 2019last year pre-Covid, but on the rise (+ 43%) compared to 2020.
“After the near total zeroing of air traffic recorded in the first 5 months of the year (-93.5% on the same period of 2019) – commented by Toscana Aeroporti – following the spread of the pandemic and further conditioned by the closure of the Florence airport in the months of February and March 2021 for work on the track, starting from the month of June it is recorded a progressive recovery (-74.7% compared to June 2019) which reached peak in November (-34.6% compared to the same month of 2019) and then settled in the last month of the year (-42.9% compared to December 2019) due to the spread of the so-called Omicron variant “.
Overall imaerial movements in 2021 there were 39,573, up by 31.2% on 2020 and down by 49.9% on 2019. The traffic loadwith 15,356 tons of cargo and mail transported in 2021, it recorded a growth of 14.0% on 2020 and 16.5% on 2019.
For what concern Galilei of Pisain 2021 they passed 1,999,137 passengers with a growth of 52.0% on 2020 and a decrease of 62.9% compared to 2019. This result is determined by the increase in both domestic passengers (+ 62.2%) and international ones ( + 44.5%). Contrary to what happened in the pre-Covid years, there has been a recovery of the weight of the domestic market (44.9%) compared to the international one (55.1%). Confirming this trend, the preferred destinations in 2021 were the Italian ones. An exception of Tirana, in fact, in the first five positions there are Palermo, Catania, Cagliari and Brindisi. In load sector Pisa airport has registered a growth 17.3% on 2020 and 17.2% on 2019 driven by the excellent performance of Courier service and operations all cargo about New York.
FromFlorence airportin 2021, they passed 838,025 passengers with an increase of 25.2% over 2020 and one contraction of 70.8% compared to 2019. Unlike the Pisa airport, the Florentine airport records a cincrease in passengers on international scheduled flights (+ 35.4%) and a decline in domestic traffic (-27.6%), in line with a context where the international market represents 90% of total traffic compared to 10% of the domestic one. The foreign market, in fact, covers the main five destinations of 2021, in detail Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich and Barcelona.