In the month of March, more than 1.1 million passengers chose Brussels Airport, an increase of 500% in comparison with March 2021 and a decline of 44% compared to the same month before the Covid crises (2019).
This makes the month of March the best month of 2022 so far.
Passenger traffic: an increase of 504%
In March, Brussels Airport welcomed 1,128,791 passengers, that is no less than six times as many as in March 2021 (187,000 passengers) when non-essential travel was still banned, and a decline of 44% compared to March 2019 (nearly 2 million passengers).
The Easter holidays have not yet had an impact on the figures for March, since the holiday exodus only began on Friday 1 April.
The share of transfer passengers is 14%, which is 4 percentage points lower than in 2019 due to the strong increase in local outgoing traffic and the decline in the number of transfers between the European destinations.
The ten most visited countries in March were, respectively, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Turkey, the United States, the United Kingdom and Morocco.
The ten most popular destinations were Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rome, Geneva, Milan, Istanbul, Malaga, Dubai and London.
In March 2022, the total number of flight movements rose by 154% compared to 2021, with 13,129 flight movements (compared to 18,126 in 2019).
The number of passenger flights increased with 348% compared to 2021, which is 61% of the number of passenger flights in March 2019.
Each flight had an average of 119 passengers on board compared to 129 in 2019. The number of cargo flights decreased this month by 2.5% compared to 2021.
