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Eurostat: August Sees Growth in EU Commercial Flights, with Cyprus Showing Decline

Eurostat has recently announced that between June and August 2026, there were more than two million commercial flights in the EU. 

August of this year saw 708 980 flights, a 2.3 percent increase compared with the previous year and a 5.7 percent increase compared with 2024. 

July was the busiest of these three months with 709,931 flights, marking a 2.8 percent annual increase and a 5.7 percent increase compared with 2024.

In June, there were 662,480 flights, a 2.1 percent growth compared with 2025 and 4.9 percent compared with 2024.

In August of the current year, compared with the same month of 2025, the number of commercial flights increased in 19 EU countries and decreased in eight. The largest annual increases were in Slovakia (37 percent), Malta (12.4 percent) and Estonia (8.3 percent). The largest decreases were in Austria (-4.7 percent), Cyprus (-3 percent) and Germany (-2.4 percent).