Nearly 21 million air passengers in Q2 2025

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A total of 20.7 million air passengers passed through the Netherlands’ five major airports in Q2 2025. That was 3.1 percent more than in the same quarter of 2024. The number of flights increased by 1.4 percent to 141.8 thousand. In recent years Schiphol has been the second busiest airport in the European Union in terms of passengers numbers. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this on the basis of new figures.

All five of the Netherlands’ major airports saw more flights in Q2 2025 than the same period in 2024. More passengers were also transported at four of the five airports; only Maastricht Aachen Airport saw a fall in passenger numbers of 10 percent.

Nearly 18 million air passengers passed through Schiphol

With 87 percent of all flights and 87 percent of all passengers carried, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the Netherlands’ busiest airport. There were nearly 124 thousand flights to and from Schiphol in Q2 2025, an increase of 1.4 percent compared to Q2 2024. The number of passengers using Schiphol rose by 3.1 percent to 17.9 million.


Almost two million air passengers passed through Eindhoven Airport in Q2 2025, 2.2 percent more than in Q2 2024. There were 6.7 thousand flights to and from the other three airports combined (Rotterdam The Hague Airport, Maastricht Aachen Airport and Groningen Airport Eelde) in Q2 2025, and 767 thousand passengers. That was an increase of 2.2 percent in terms of flights, and 5.4 percent in terms of passengers with respect to the same quarter of 2024.

Schiphol has been the EU’s second busiest airport for many years

Not only is Schiphol the most important airport in the Netherlands, it is also one of the busiest in the European Union. In 2024, Schiphol had the second highest number of passengers in the European Union, at 66.8 million. Only Charles de Gaulle in Paris was busier with 70.3 million passengers.


The largest rise in passenger numbers in the EU’s ten busiest airports was at Humberto Delgado Airport in Lisbon in Portugal: from 33.6 million passengers in 2023, to 41 million in 2024 (+22 percent). At Fiumicino Airport in Rome, the number of passengers in 2024 was up by 20.8 percent compared to 2023.

Increase in freight transport to and from Maastricht Aachen Airport

Nearly 355 thousand tonnes of air freight were handled in the Netherlands in Q2 2025. Of that total, 344 thousand tonnes were transported to or from Schiphol. That was a decrease of 5 percent compared to Q2 2024, but still represents almost 97 percent of all air freight handled in the Netherlands. More air freight was transported to and from Maastricht Aachen Airport (the only other airport in the Netherlands that handles freight): 11.2 thousand tonnes, an increase of 8.3 percent compared to Q2 2024.

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