Sheremetyevo International Airport was Europe’s fifth-busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic in 2020, following Istanbul’s new airport, Roissy – Charles de Gaulle in Paris, London Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heathrow had been first among European airports, but suffered a 73% decrease in passenger traffic due to lockdowns and border closures stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, which affected all airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most Western European airports experienced a decline in passenger traffic of 70% or more in 2020, but Sheremetyevo and Istanbul’s reductions were smaller, resulting in their rise in the ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sheremetyevo served 19,784,000 passengers in 2020, compared to 49.9 million in 2019, and performed 186,383 take-off and landing operations. The new Istanbul airport, which opened in April 2019, served 23.4 million passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aviation industry analysts do not expect passenger traffic to rise significantly this year as long as the travel restrictions continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rounding out Bloomberg’s list of Europe’s ten busiest airports in 2020 were Frankfurt, Madrid, Istanbul Sabiha G\u00f6k\u00e7en (SAW), Barcelona and Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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