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Commercial Flights in the EU Reach 6.9 Million in 2025

In 2025, 6.9 million commercial flights were recorded in the EU, an increase of 3.8 percent compared with 2024 (6.7 million). The number of flights has risen continuously since 2021 and, by 2025, had returned to a level similar to the pre-pandemic figure of seven million recorded in 2019.

Non-scheduled commercial flights (charter flights and other special flights) constituted 8.5 percent 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 percent, 12.3 percent, and 11.4 percent, respectively). 

Schiphol in Amsterdam: Top Airport for Commercial Flights

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 percent) in Greece, Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas (4.8 percent) in Spain, and København/Kastrup (4.1 percent) in Denmark.