(10 October 2016) – In 2015, 918.3 million passengers travelled by air in the European Union, up by 4.7% compared with 2014 and by 22.0% compared with 2009.
In 2015, intra-EU transport represented 45.2% of total air passenger transport in the EU, followed by extra-EU transport (37.2%), while national transport accounted for fewer than 1 in every 5 passengers (17.6%).
The number of air passengers carried in 2015 rose in all EU Member States compared with 2014. The largest increases were registered in Slovakia (+16.3%) and Romania (+15.3%), followed by Hungary (+13.0%), Poland (+12.4%), Ireland (+12.3%), Lithuania (+11.3%) and Portugal (+10.6%).
London/Heathrow remained the EU’s busiest passenger airport in 2015, with 75.0 million passengers handled, slightly up (+2.2%) compared with 2014. Paris/Charles de Gaulle (65.7 mn, +3.2%), Frankfurt/Main (60.9 mn, +2.5%) and Amsterdam/Schiphol (58.2 mn, +5.8%) were the second, third and fourth busiest airports.