Overview

• Official ADV H1 2025 data put Germany’s passenger traffic at 84.3% of the pre‑pandemic baseline, with the country trailing other European markets.
• Inner‑European volumes have rebounded to roughly 92% of 2019, while domestic flying totals 11.3 million passengers, about 48.9% of the pre‑crisis level, with videoconferencing cited as a factor.
• Cologne/Bonn handled 4.38 million passengers in H1 2025, edging up 0.4% year on year and underperforming the national growth average of 2.8%.
• Düsseldorf‑Weeze led North Rhine‑Westphalia with an 18% passenger increase, outpacing several peers as smaller, point‑to‑point airports gain share.
• Eurowings will lift Cologne/Bonn–Dubai to four weekly flights in the coming winter and add three weekly services to Jeddah plus a weekly Erbil route, part of a network push that brings its Dubai offering to 28 weekly departures across German bases.