100 million additional passengers at European airports shows resilient 2025 for traffic
The Full Year 2025 ACI EUROPE Airport Traffic Report, released this month, reveals a remarkably resilient growth in air passenger traffic – amidst generally lacklustre European economies, inflated airfares, significant supply and capacity pressures, as well as ever-volatile and tense geopolitics.
Overall, passenger traffic across the European airport network in 2025 increased by +4.4% when compared to last year, with international passenger traffic expanding by +5.6% and domestic traffic remaining flat at +0.2%. This resulted in Europe’s airports setting an absolute record of 2.6 billion passengers, welcoming an additional 100 million passengers compared to 2024.
Non-EU+ airports outperformed the European average, with their passenger volumes expanding by +6.2%, with Moldova (+46.8%) and Israel (+31.3%) as leaders. This compares with a +4% growth at EU+ airports, with Slovakia (+20.2%), Poland (+14.4%), Hungary (+11.1%) and Slovenia (+10.7%) amongst the best performers – along with Malta (+12.3%) and Cyprus (+10.7%).
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