Aviation; monthly figures of Dutch airports
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Table explanation
Data on flight movements, passengers, cargo and mail at Dutch airports.
Summary of the contents of the EU figure in this publication:
The composition of the European Union (EU-15) until 2004: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
In 2005 the European Union (EU-25) expanded with: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
In 2007 Bulgaria and Romania have been added (EU-27).
In 2014 Croatia was added (EU-28).
As of February 2020 the United Kingdom has left the European Union.
Data available from:
Annual figures available from 1997; monthly figures available from January 1999.
Status of the figures:
The figures are final up to and including 2022, 2023 and for the current year are provisional.
Up to and including December 2020 the figures of EU countries include data for the UK. This to guarantee the comparability of the data. As of January 2021 data for the UK are included in the figures of "other Europe".
As of 8 November 2022 the figures for Eindhoven airport for the reporting period April, May and June 2022 have been adjusted as a result of additional information. As a result, the marginal totals for the months of April, May and June 2022 have also been adjusted.
Due to renovation work on the runway at Maastricht Aachen Airport, there was no air traffic at this airport from 8 May 2023 to 30 June 2023.
Changes as of 16 August 2024:
The figures for June 2024 and the 1st half of 2024 have been added.
When will figures become available?
The monthly figures are published as a rule 1 month after the end of the reporting month.
Description topics
- Aircraft movements
- Take-offs and landings:
Information concerning take-offs and landings is based on the so-called
'airport records' dispatched monthly to Statistics Netherlands by civil
airport authorities.
The number of aircraft movements is the sum of all take-offs and
landings together.- Cross-country flights
- The number of take-offs and landings in the category 'cross-country
flights'; a cross-country flight takes off at one airport and lands at
another.
- Commercial air traffic
- Commercial air traffic:
All commercial air traffic by airlines transporting passengers, cargo and
mail for remuneration and for hire. Such flights can be classified as
follows:
- Scheduled flights:
Commercial cross-country flights along fixed routes and according to fixed
timetables.
- Non-scheduled flights:
Basically irregular commercial cross-country flights, e.g. charter
flights; taxi flights however are excluded.- Passengers
- Transport of passengers in commercial air traffic. Also included are
persons employed by airlines and passengers travelling on free tickets.
Transit passengers (arriving and departing on the same aircraft) and
passengers on taxi flights are not included.- Country of origin/destination
- Origin/destination of the passengers is based on 'flight coupons',
which state the airport (country) of origin and destination of the
aircraft.- Total country of origin/destination
- Unknown
- Cargo
- Transport of cargo in commercial air traffic, excluding mail and luggage.
- Country of origin/destination
- The weight of airlifted cargo by country of origin and destination.
'Load sheets' provide information on the airports where cargo is
loaded or unloaded.- Total country of origin/destination
- Unknown
- The total weight of mail in commercial air traffic, loaded and unloaded
at Dutch airports.- Country of origin/destination mail
- The weight of airlifted mail by country of origin and destination.
'Load sheets' provide information on the airports where mail is
loaded or unloaded.- Total country of origin/destination