Air journey has bounced again from the COVID-19 pandemic, with practically one billion passengers within the EU inside 2023 alone. Which airport, nonetheless, welcomed essentially the most?
Europeans are taking extra flights outdoors the EU than they do inside the continent or nationally.
The newest Eurostat report on air journey exhibits that in 2023, 49% of passengers travelled to international locations outdoors the EU, in comparison with 36% inside the bloc and solely 15% nationally.
The information present that Paris Charles de Gaulle is the EU’s busiest airport – servicing 67 million passengers final 12 months – adopted by Amsterdam’s Schiphol with 62 million, and Madrid’s Barajas with 60 million.
London Heathrow, nonetheless, was essentially the most crowded in Europe because it was utilized by 79 million passengers.
With 973 million passengers flying inside or out of the EU in 2023, the bloc’s aviation sector appears to have bounced again from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The variety of passengers grew in each single EU member state – significantly in Malta (+33.3%), Slovenia (+30.9%) and the Czech Republic (+29.4%) – a 19% common enhance throughout the EU in comparison with 2022.
Different European international locations reported even larger surges: +47% in North Macedonia and +38% in Serbia.
In the meantime, most journeys taken by EU passengers outdoors the EU had been in the direction of different European international locations (57.1%).
When it got here to travelling outdoors the continent, North America was essentially the most favoured vacation spot (11.1%), adopted by West Asia (9.4%), North Africa (8.8%) and South America (3.1%).
Video editor • Mert Can Yilmaz
