A document yr 2024 for air site visitors within the European Union | EUROtoday

On Dec 10, 2025

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SAccording to Eurostat knowledge, the entire variety of air passengers within the European Union rose to a document degree of 1.053 billion in 2024, up 8.3% in comparison with 2023 (973 million). It exceeded that of 1.035 billion reached in 2019, earlier than the well being disaster. In 2020, as a result of Covid-related journey restrictions, the variety of air passengers within the EU had fallen to 277 million.

In ten years, the variety of air passengers within the EU has elevated by 35%. Total air freight and mail transport within the EU additionally noticed a rise of 8.7% in 2024 in comparison with 2023, pushed by a ten.8% progress in extra-EU transport.

Germany chief for extra-EU flights

Flights from or to nations exterior the European Union represented 49.3% of complete passenger transport final yr, forward of flights inside the EU (36.4%) and home flights (14.3%). With a complete of 87.1 million, Germany is the nation that recorded the very best variety of air passengers in 2024 for extra-EU flights, whereas Spain got here first for air transport between EU nations with 123.8 million passengers.

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All European Union nations skilled a rise within the variety of air passengers in 2024 in comparison with 2023. The largest will increase have been noticed in Hungary (+ 19.2%), Czechia (+ 18.9%) and Estonia (+ 17.8%), whereas the smallest will increase have been famous in Sweden (+ 1.3%), Bulgaria (+ 3.8%), France and Ireland (every + 4.6%).

Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle is the EU airport which recorded, in 2024, the very best variety of passengers (70.3 million passengers, + 4.3% in comparison with 2023), forward of Amsterdam-Schiphol, (66.8 million passengers, + 8%), Madrid-Barajas (66.1 million, + 9.9%), Frankfurt-Main (61.5 million, + 3.7%) and Barcelona-El Prat (54.9 million, + 10.3%). Among the ten predominant airports within the European Union, that of Rome-Fiumicino skilled the strongest progress (+ 20.8%), forward of that of Athens-Eleftherios Venizelos (+ 19.6%) which took tenth place within the rating from Orly final yr.

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