Traffic development

The old traffic record was broken in 2018. DFS registered exactly 3,346,448 flight movements in German airspace, a rise of 4.2 percent over the previous year. For the fourth year in a row, the number of IFR flights controlled by air traffic controllers cracked the three-million mark.

Controlled flights includes practically all scheduled, charter and cargo flights. They are guided by air traffic control from the moment they take off until the moment they land.