Air traffic - Air traffic control: Euro 2020 brings record in flight movements
The Football European Championship brought a record to Berlin's Air Traffic Control at the main airport BER, according to an evaluation. On the day after the final, 754 movements of larger passenger planes were registered there, which is the same number as never since the airport's opening in October 2020.
For German airspace, the 9979 flight movements on Monday, July 15, were the busiest day of the year. During the entire European Championship, there were 289,513 flight movements, approximately 11,000 more than a year ago. However, the pilots had already steered days with five-digit movement numbers before the Corona pandemic. The record stands at 11,012 flight movements on July 4, 2019.
The Football European Championship led to an unprecedented number of flight movements at Berlin's BER, with the European Championship itself contributing approximately 11,000 more than the previous year. The European Football Championship's impact on Berlin's Air Traffic Control at BER resulted in a record 754 movements of larger passenger planes on the day following the final. Despite the high number of flights during the European Championship, the busiest day for German airspace still remains July 4, 2019, with a record 11,012 flight movements. The ongoing European Football Championship in Berlin coincided with Berlin's BER airport reporting its busiest single day for air traffic since its opening in October 2020.
