Airport Association Survey: the most popular holiday destination in Spain

By far the most popular holiday destination for air travelers from Germany is Spain. 11.8 million passengers flew to Spanish airports last year, an increase of 16% over 2014, according to the ADV Airport Travel Survey survey reported by Funke Media Group's newspapers (Tuesday ),

Germany comes in second place with 5.71 million passengers, followed by Turkey (4.56 million), Britain (3.93 million), l & # 39; Italy (3.87 million), Greece (2.63 million) and the United States (2.59 million). Turkey recorded a 19 percent drop in passengers. The largest increase was 46% to 1.67 million passengers. North America (4.1 million) is the busiest distant destination, Asia (3.8 million) catching up to 19% compared to 2014.

The internal route- The most popular German is between Berlin and Munich (1.66 million passengers in both directions). The number of passengers is also high on the lines Berlin-Cologne / Bonn (1.58 million passengers), Hamburg-Munich (1.36 million) and Munich-Dusseldorf (1.22 million). The average age of air travelers is 42 years old. The proportion of young passengers up to the age of 29 has increased from 22 to 25% since 2014.

In 2017, more than 162,000 passengers departed from 23 German airports, from Hamburg to Friedrichshafen , were interviewed for the ADV survey. The Airport Association conducts the survey every three years.