Eurostat: Commercial flights in the EU reached 6.9 million in 2025
In 2025, 6.9 million commercial flights were recorded in the European Union, an increase of 3.8 per cent compared with 2024 (6.7 million), EU statistics agency Eurostat said on August 28.
The number of flights has risen continuously since 2021 and, by 2025, had returned to a level similar to the pre-pandemic figure of 7.0 million recorded in 2019, Eurostat said.
Non-scheduled commercial flights (charter flights and other special flights) constituted 8.5 per cent of all flights in 2025.
The summer months – June (648 707 total flights), July (690 855), and August (693 046) – recorded the highest number of non-scheduled flights (11.2 per cent, 12.3 per cent, and 11.4 per cent, respectively), the statistics agency said.
The highest count of commercial flights (scheduled and non-scheduled) in 2025 was recorded in Amsterdam Schiphol airport in the Netherlands, with 488 000 flights. It was followed by Paris-Charles de Gaulle (476 000) in France and Frankfurt/Main (457 000) in Germany.
Among the 10 airports with the biggest numbers of commercial flights, the highest shares of non-scheduled flights were recorded in Athina/Eleftherios Venizelos (5.2 per cent) in Greece, Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas (4.8 per cent) in Spain and København/Kastrup (4.1 per cent) in Denmark, Eurostat said.
(Main photo: Julian Herzog, via Wikimedia Commons)
