Fraport Group has reported stronger financial results for the first nine months of 2025, with growth across all key indicators and a return to positive cash flow for the first time in seven years. The German airport operator said group revenue rose 7.8% year on year to €3.2bn, after adjustments...

Air traffic at Aalborg Airport in Denmark was disrupted for a second consecutive night after suspected drones were spotted in the area, prompting authorities to temporarily close the airspace. Danish police said the airspace was shut at 23:40 local time on Thursday as a precaution and reopened less...

UK air traffic in July increased by 2.4% on the same month last year as NATS safely handled 248,138 flights. The total was also nearly 11,000 higher than June’s total flights and averaged more than 8,000 flights per day. The busiest day so far this year – and the busiest day since 2019 – was...

In July 2025, Latvian airline airBaltic carried more than half a million passengers – specifically 539 300 – across all its bases, a slight 4% decrease compared to July 2024. The airline operated about 4 455 flights, a slight drop of 0.7%. The load factor stayed stable at 86.4%, showing only ...

Preliminary traffic figures for the full calendar year 2024, released today by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), revealed strong growth in both international air passenger and cargo markets. The increase in flight frequencies alongside network expansions supported solid growth in t...

Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the UAE, closed 2024 on a high note with robust performance in December. The airline welcomed 1.7 million passengers during the month, marking a significant 20% increase compared to December 2023. The load factor also rose to 87%, up from 84% in the same...

European air traffic has "finally" surpassed pre-pandemic levels in the first half of 2024, according to ACI Europe. Figures published today show that passenger traffic across the European airport network increased by 0.4 per cent compared to the first half of 2019. Meanwhile, traffic grew by ...

July 2023 saw traffic 7% up on average compared with July 2022, with total flights in the month exceeding 1 million for the first time since September 2019. In fact, in around half of EUROCONTROL’s Member States, traffic levels are at or above those of July 2019 – particularly in south-east E...

In May, Finnair carried 960,400 passengers, which was 23.4% more than in May 2022 and 10.6% more than in April 2023. Month-on-month figures are, however, not fully comparable as there was one day less in April. May passenger traffic figures improved year-on-year as the COVID-19 pandemic impacts ...

In March, Finnair carried 953,000 passengers, which was 55.1% more than in March 2022 and 15.7% more than in February 2023. Month-on-month figures are, however, not fully comparable as there were three fewer days in February. As the COVID-19 pandemic impacts are fading, March passenger traffic fi...

3,198,152 million passengers used Avinor’s airports in January. This was an increase of 70 per cent compared to January 2022. Although there was an increase in passenger figures compared to January 2022, the figures are 16 per cent lower than January 2019.* “Air traffic in January has been...

The Airports Council International (ACI) and Airport Services Association (ASA) say there is no quick fix for the for airports which are failing to adapt to the increased passenger traffic experienced in the last few months. The statement, made by Olivier Jankovec, Director General of ACI Europe,...

The invasion of Ukraine has brought commercial flying there to a standstill, and stopped overflights of neighbouring Moldova. Elsewhere around the borders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, overflights are also much disrupted. Here EUROCONTROL explore the changes in overflights between mid-Februa...

The potential Russian airspace closure would notably impact air traffic between Europe and Asia, which plays an important role in Finnair’s network. The negative financial impacts on Finnair will be significant especially if the situation prolongs. Due to this, the company withdraws its guidan...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that the recovery in air travel decelerated in August compared to July, as government actions in response to concerns over the COVID-19 Delta variant cut deeply into domestic travel demand. Because comparisons between 2021 and 2020 mont...