Air passenger numbers reaching record high

Slightly more than 20 million passengers went through Schiphol airport in Q3. Year-on-year, passenger traffic still showed limited growth at 0.2 percent. Growth has levelled off since Q2 2018. This is due to the fact that the total number of movements must not exceed 500 thousand per year, as laid down in the Alders Agreement. In Q3, the number of movements declined by 1 percent year-on-year.

Wide range of destinations throughout the summer

In the months of July, August and September, 87 percent of all passengers flew via Amsterdam; 9 percent went via Eindhoven and the remaining 4 percent via Rotterdam, Maastricht and Groningen. Apart from every airport’s regular air services, these were predominantly holiday flights. The various national airports have a wide variety of destinations.

Over 2 million passengers at Eindhoven Airport

Eindhoven Airport handled a record number of over 2 million travellers in Q3, nearly 8 percent more than in the same quarter in 2018. Groningen Airport Eelde had fewer passengers for the third consecutive quarter.
The number of passengers travelling through Maastricht Aachen Airport in Q3 2019 was 50 percent up on the previous year, ending at nearly 205 thousand. This was relatively the sharpest increase of all five national airports. This is the sixth consecutive quarter this airport is showing the strongest relative growth. However, Maastricht Aachen Airport handles only 1 percent of the total in the Netherlands.