Last night, I sat on my balcony for a period of time and observed the Frankfurt Airport off in the distance. I live around 25 km away....on a hillside...that gives me a 30-percent view of the runway. So you can see as night approaches....the lights on planes present themselves as they land.
In a typical 'normal' 20-minute period of observation, there would be a minimum of nine planes landing/taking off.
Well, I sat for 20 minutes and counted. A max of three planes took off or landed. That's it.
That's peak time, when you'd expect the flow to be active (not the mid-morning or mid-afternoon).
The sound of planes in formation over my valley....in the take-off phase? I used to hear probably twenty planes a day. Now, I'm lucky if I hear three of them.
A return to normal in 2020? I have my doubts. A lot of news chatter suggests that the flight schedule out of Frankfurt will be lucky to hit the 50-percent point by the end of 2020.
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