European airport traffic back to 1995 levels due to Covid impact

Irish airports amongst the worst impacted

An empty terminal at Cork Airport. Irish airports were amongst the worst impacted in Europe last year. Picture Dan Linehan

Europe’s airports lost 1.72 billion passengers last year, a drop of more than 70% due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Figures from the European airport trade association, ACI Europe, shows just 728m passengers in 2020 compared to 2.4bn passengers in the previous year.