Dresden and Leipzig/Halle Airports See 140% Increase in Passengers in 2022: Passenger Numbers More Than Double with Growth Potential for the Future

 Leipzig, Germany, 2023-Jan-17 — /Travel PR News/ — 2,403,772 passengers in all passed through Dresden and Leipzig/Halle Airports last year. This represents an increase of 140.1 percent compared to the figure in the previous year, 2021. As a result, passenger numbers more than doubled. The number of aircraft movements rose by 11.6 percent to 101,022…. Read the full press release

Mytheresa, luxury fashion platform to open new logistics center at Leipzig/Halle Airport

The leading platform for luxury fashion Mytheresa has announced that it’ll be opening a new logistics center, directly at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany. Leipzig, Germany, 2021-Oct-26 — /Travel PR News/ — It will be the company’s second one in addition to its headquarters in Munich. This is likely to create about 500 new jobs in… Read the full press release

Hartmut Vorjohann, the Saxon State Minister of Finances, elected acting Chairperson of the Supervisory Board at Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (MFAG)

The Saxon State Minister of Finances, Hartmut Vorjohann, takes over as Chairperson on a temporary basis Schkeuditz, Germany, 2021-Sep-01 — /Travel PR News/ — The new Supervisory Board at Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (MFAG) held its first meeting on Friday, 27 August 2021. The five-year period in office of the previous board, which consisted of 15… Read the full press release

Leipzig/Halle Airport welcomed the world’s largest aircraft transporting more than 10.3 million face masks

Schkeuditz, Germany, 2020-Apr-28 — /Travel PR News/ — Permanent corona crisis operations are causing the aviation giant to now fly to Central Germany. The Antonov 225 Mriya, the world’s largest aircraft, landed at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Monday morning. German Defence Minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, and Götz Ahmelmann, CEO of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG, welcomed the crew after… Read the full press release

Volga-Dnepr Group and Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG to expand their strategic partnership at Leipzig/Halle Airport

Schkeuditz, Germany, 2019-Jun-21 — /Travel PR News/ — The Volga-Dnepr Group and Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (MFAG) will continue to expand their strategic partnership at Leipzig/Halle Airport in the areas of air freight and logistics. Both companies agreed this in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which was signed today (18. June 2019) in the presence of the… Read the full press release

Leipzig/Halle Airport organised a specialist international conference on “Humanitarian Logistics”

Schkeuditz, Germany, 2019-May-24 — /Travel PR News/ — Leipzig/Halle Airport, working with the Volga-Dnepr Group and the Akkon University of Human Sciences, organised a specialist international conference on topics related to “Humanitarian Logistics” on 21 May this year. About 60 representatives from research institutes, government and non-government organisations, logistics companies, airports as well as airlines attended… Read the full press release

Positive developments at Leipzig/Halle Airport during the first quarter

Schkeuditz, Germany, 2019-Apr-17 — /Travel PR News/ — “The way that business developed at Leipzig/Halle Airport during the first quarter makes us optimistic as we look forward to the whole year. Thanks to new services in the low-cost sector and in tourist flights, the prospects that the positive trend will continue are excellent,” says Götz Ahmelmann,… Read the full press release

Wizz Air announces new service between Leipzig/Halle Airport and Kiev Zhuliany Airport from 5 July

Schkeuditz, Germany, 2019-Mar-28 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the leading low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, will be running flights between Leipzig/Halle Airport and Kiev Zhuliany Airport from 5 July. This means that there will be non-stop flights between the two twin cities of Leipzig and Kiev for the first time since German… Read the full press release

Dresden Airport welcomes Corendon Airlines’ two weekly flights to Hurghada, Egypt from Dresden for summer 2019

DRESDEN, Germany, 2019-Feb-22 — /Travel PR News/ — In 2018 Egypt was one of the destinations with the highest growth rates at Dresden Airport. With more than 71,300 passengers using services from Dresden, numbers were up by more than 70 percent. In response to this high demand, Corendon Airlines will once again be running two weekly… Read the full press release

Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG announces management changes at Central German airports

Leipzig, Germany, 2018-Dec-06 — /Travel PR News/ — “By allocating the responsibilities in a new way, we’ll provide clear structures at the Central German airports, streamline the decision processes and therefore become more efficient. We can then focus on our main tasks more consistently in future, make use of the outstanding growth opportunities in the… Read the full press release

Leipzig/Halle Airport and Noi Boi International Airport in Hanoi partner to develop air freight traffic between the two airports

Schkeuditz, Germany, 2018-Nov-22 — /Travel PR News/ — As part of a delegation trip to Vietnam headed by the Saxon State Minister for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport, Martin Dulig, Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG acting on behalf of Leipzig/Halle Airport and Noi Boi International Airport in Hanoi signed a memorandum of understanding today (19 November 2018). The… Read the full press release

Airberlin appoints New Chief Commercial Officer

BERLIN, Germany, 2017-Mar-04 — /Travel PR News/ — airberlin has announced the appointment of Götz Ahmelmann as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Götz Ahmelmann returns to airberlin from Etihad Airways where, since 2015, he successfully implemented projects among the European Etihad Airways Partners. He will contribute his valuable international commercial experience to further the future growth of… Read the full press release

airberlin opens Exclusive Waiting Area for business passengers at Albrecht Dürer Airport Nuremberg

BERLIN, Germany, 2015-3-23 — /Travel PR News/ — “Take off relaxed”. True to the new Albrecht Dürer Airport Nuremberg claim, business passengers can now enjoy a place where their imagination can soar or they can prepare for upcoming appointments before departure: airberlin today opened its latest Exclusive Waiting Area. “With more than 1.1 million passengers… Read the full press release