The amount of freight transported fell in Q3 by 10 percent to 348,000 tons.
July, August and September are the quarter in which airlines carry the most passengers every year, due to the summer holidays. August is the busiest month. The exception to this pattern was 2020, when the corona pandemic paralyzed a large part of air traffic for a longer period of time from the end of March.
Of the five airports, Schiphol was by far the busiest in the third quarter of 2023, with 86 percent of all flights. In terms of passenger numbers, there were 17.8 million, 14 percent more than in the same quarter of 2022. With more than two million passengers, Eindhoven Airport accounted for 10 percentage points of all travelers. Eindhoven Airport and Rotterdam The Hague Airport also processed slightly more passengers in the third quarter than in the same quarter of 2019.
CBS has also broken down Schiphol’s figures by region: 71 percent of passengers flew within Europe, 16 percent went to and from America, 9 percent to and from Asia and 4 percent to elsewhere.
From the other three airports, most flights within Europe were flown to holiday destinations in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Turkey, but also to some destinations in North Africa (Egypt and Morocco). Groningen Airport only flew within Europe.
