NS Passenger traffic at national airports grew in September, to 3.6 million passengers, but this figure still down Compared to 2019, in the pre-pandemic period, according to data released Friday by the National Institute of Statistics.
In September 2021, the movement 3.6 million passengers The total movement of goods and mail amounted to 16.8 thousand tons (+ 95.8% and +35.0%, compared to September 2020, respectively)”, can be read in the report of the National Institute of Statistics.
but, Compared to September 2019passenger traffic decreased 39.3% Freight and mail traffic decreased 5.2%.
Between January and September 2021, there was a 3.6% increase in the number of passengers handled at national airports compared to the same period in the previous year (-67.3% in the same period in 2020; +6.9% in the same period in 2020). 2019). Compared to the same period in 2019, the decline was 66.1%.
Between January and September 2021, France was the country of origin and the main destination of the flights, followed, with a much smaller volume of passengers, by the United Kingdom and Germany, also revealed by the Portuguese Statistics Agency.
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