Swedavia’s traffic statistics for December and for the full-year 2020
During December, 408,000 passengers flew via Swedavia’s ten airports, a decrease of 86 per cent compared to 2,852,000 passengers for the same period in 2019. The full-year was strongly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic with a decrease of more than 30 million passengers, meaning air travel in Sweden during 2020 was back to levels last seen in the early 1980s. “Air travel has been hit extremely hard by the pandemic and due to the escalating spread of Covid-19 and subsequent travel restrictions implemented, passenger volume decreased 86 per cent in December. The course of the pandemic,