97% of passenger traffic recovered for European airports in July

ACI EUROPE released the July 2023 Airport Traffic Report pointing to excellent recovery results for European airports in the time period covered.

Passenger traffic across the European airport network in July stood at just -3% compared to July 2019 – a further improvement over the preceding month (June stood at -5.9% compared to the same month in 2019). When compared to July 2022, passenger traffic grew by +12.8%.

The best performances came from markets predominantly relying on inbound tourism and/or transatlantic traffic, with airports in Iceland (+16.2%), Croatia (+15.7%), Greece (+14.8%), Portugal (+10.5%), Luxembourg (+10.5%), Poland (+7.1%), Malta (+6.3%), Cyprus (+3%), Italy (+2.3%), Spain (+1.3%) and Ireland (+0.6%) all exceeding their pre-pandemic levels.

At the other end of the spectrum, airports in Finland (-31%), Slovenia (-27.4%), Bulgaria (-22.9%), Germany (-19.2%) and Sweden (-17.9%) remained the farthest from a full recovery. While German airports posted the worst passenger traffic performance amongst larger markets, airports in the UK (-4.7%) made further progress towards their full recovery, followed by those in France (-6.6%).

Read more in our analysis.
Access the Airport Traffic Reports in the Members Area of the ACI EUROPE website (only for members).