Fez Airport Sees 71.5% Drop in Passengers Amid Pandemic Travel Restrictions

30 December 2020 – byGinette · 1 min read

The year 2020 will have marked many sectors due to the coronavirus pandemic which imposed the suspension for many months of air links. This is the case of the Fès-Saïs airport where passenger traffic recorded a 71.5% drop at the end of November 2020, compared to the same period in 2019.

According to the National Airports Office (ONDA), 372,505 travelers passed through the Fès-Saïs airport during the first eleven months of the year ending, compared to 1,307,219 passengers during the same period in 2019. A large gap that is explained by the health situation that the world is going through.

At the national level, the overall commercial air passenger traffic recorded in November a decrease of 81.24% compared to the same period in 2019. In November 2020, the Fès-Saïs airport recorded 26,944 passengers, compared to 106,252 passengers during the same period the previous year, a decrease of 74.64%.

In the ranking of commercial air traffic by zone, Fès-Saïs takes the 5th position behind Casablanca-Mohammed V, Marrakech-Ménara, Agadir-Al Massira and Tanger-Ibn Battouta. Despite the vagaries of this year, the Fès-Saïs airport plans to increase its capacity to 2.5 million passengers.

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