Verkehrsbericht

Two million passengers travelled through BER in December

Condor recorded the strongest growth for 2025 / Gulf region sees strong demand

Two million people travelled via Berlin Brandenburg Airport in December 2025. That was 3.2 percent more than in the corresponding month last year.

In total, 14,871 aircraft took off and landed at BER last month. In December 2024, the figure was 14,765 aircraft. Furthermore, 4,377 tonnes of freight were handled, 537 tonnes more than in the previous year.

According to the latest traffic statistics, Berlin Brandenburg Airport saw exactly 26,050,740 passengers in 2025. Despite the ongoing difficult market situation in Germany, this represents growth of 2.3 percent compared to the previous year.

In total, 193,042 aircraft took off and landed at BER, 0.7 percent more than in 2024. The average aircraft load factor was 82.2 percent, 0.3 percent higher than in the previous year.

In total, 51,976.163 tonnes of goods were handled as air freight, an increase of 17.4 per cent.

Most popular destinations and largest airlines

Most passengers, 1.3 million people, used the domestic German connection between BER and Frankfurt in 2025, while some 960,000 passengers flew from BER to Munich or vice versa. Palma de Mallorca ranked third with more than 906,000 passengers, once again rendering it the most popular destination outside Germany. Zurich (896,000 passengers) and Antalya (728,400 passengers) followed in fourth and fifth place.

Of the airlines, Condor generated the strongest growth at BER. It has significantly expanded its presence since 2024 and carried some 349,000 passengers last year, comfortably surpassing 300,000 more than in 2024.

Eurowings also expanded its network in 2025 with new destinations and additional frequencies. The airline recorded the second-largest growth at BER with 9.3 percent more passengers compared to 2024. In total, about 2.3 million people flew with Eurowings to or from BER.

Ryanair remains the market leader among individual airlines. The Irish airline reduced its services at BER by about ten percent in 2025 due to high location costs in Germany. Nevertheless, it carried almost 4.7 million passengers.

The airline easyJet ranked second with about 4.2 million passengers and saw 2.6 percent growth.

The largest group, with some 5.9 million passengers, continues to be the Lufthansa Group (Lufthansa, Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian and Brussels). It grew in total by 3.2 percent compared to 2024.

Strong growth in the Gulf region

Passenger traffic on long-haul routes to the Gulf region has seen a very considerable increase: several airlines (Qatar Airways, Eurowings, Condor and Flynas) offer various connections to Doha, Jeddah, Dubai and Abu Dhabi and have expanded these significantly, in particular since 2024. Together, they carried in total 726,300 passengers to and from BER, 44 percent more than in 2024. Most of them, some 517,000 passengers, travelled with Qatar Airways to Doha or from Doha to BER. This represented growth of some 21 percent for this airline.

On the routes to Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, the number of passengers increased by 113,200 to about 174,000. In addition to Eurowings, Condor has been flying there since 2025. Some 35,000 passengers flew to and from Saudi Arabia, more than twice as many as in the previous year.

The December 2025 traffic report with the final figures will be available online later this month.

Traffic statistics

The monthly aircraft noise report can be found online at the end of the month

Monthly aircraft noise report

The chart shows the aircraft movements in December on the individual flight routes of both runways at BER:

Aircraft movements December

The graph shows the aircraft movements in the entire year 2024 on the individual flight paths of the two BER runways:

Aircraft movements in the entire year 2025