669 pages of German statistics

The German bureau of statistics (Destatis) has recently published a 669 page report on air transport in 2012.

Some interesting bits on page 10:

• 2.1m movements (i.e. start + landing) of commercial air transport, transporting 180m passengers
• 1.07m movements of non commercial motor aircraft (82k were helicopters)
• commercial transport down 3.2% compared to 2011
• non commercial transport down 1.2% compared to 2011 (GA beats commercial airlines!)

Starting page 550 some information on how different aircraft classes are represented at the airports:

• Frankfurt EDDF 7 non commercial starts <2t (0.002%, muahaha, still beats Heathrow in GA friendliness by factor 100)
• Munich EDDM 13 non commercial starts <2t (that is GA friendly I'd say)

Quite interesting stuff in there but some numbers are questionable because of how they get determined. Destatis sends questionnaires which you are required by law to answer truthfully but often their categories don't fit with your own databases (for example they don't differentiate between "airport" and "airfield" but they differentiate between commercial and non commercial which is not always easy to say for a smaller airport).