Data on flight movements, passengers, cargo and mail at Dutch airports
Air passenger traffic quadrupled in Q2 year-on-year
This edition of the Internationalisation Monitor focuses on the environmental aspect of Dutch international trade: how does globalisation contribute to the issues and solutions in the area of environmental sustainability?
The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020 is the successor to Trends in the Netherlands and the Statistical Yearbooks and Pocket Books.
Last year, 23.6 million passengers travelled to and from the five main airports of the Netherlands.
In 2018, the Netherlands earned nearly 34 percent of GDP through exports of goods and services.
In June 2020, more than half a million passengers travelled to and from the five national airports. This is 93 percent less than in June 2019, when there were 7.5 million air passengers.
Data scouting in coronavirus times
In April 2020, nearly 134 thousand passengers travelled to and from the five national airports.
In March 2020, sales of petrol, diesel and fuel oil as well as the consumption of kerosene were down by 13 percent relative to January; year-on-year, the decline amounted to 12 percent
In Q1 2020, the number of passengers travelling to and from the five national airports declined by over 20 percent on the same quarter last year.
The number of passengers flying to and from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in March 2020 fell by 56 percent relative to the same period last year.
In 2019, there were 25.6 thousand aircraft movements to and from the three islands of the Caribbean Netherlands.
In 2019, a record number of air passengers - over 81 million - travelled to and from the Netherlands via one of the five national airports.
Over 23 million passengers flew via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and 4 other national airports in Q3 2019, the highest number in one quarter ever recorded.
In Q2 2019, a total of 21.8 million passengers flew to and from the Netherlands. This is 2.7 percent more than in Q2 2018. The total weight of transported cargo was 9.4 percent lower than one year previously.
In 2018, Dutch airports handled 79.6 million arrivals and departures. The total stood at 76.2 milion in the previous year. In 2008, a total of 50 million passengers used Dutch airports.
Amsterdam Schiphol and the other four large airports recorded an increase in passenger arrivals and departures in 2017.
Nearly 60 million passengers going via Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
Friesland and North Brabant are the biggest exporters of goods to countries outside the EU.
For the first time in history, the number of passengers travelling through Dutch airports broke the 60 million barrier last year; 90 percent of them travelled through Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The number of passengers travelling through Eindhoven Airport also increased substantially.
The latest figures released today by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) show that nearly all Dutch provinces were affected by the economic recession in 2013.
In 2013, tourist tax is anticipated to put 162 million euros in the municipal coffers, i.e. an increase by 36 percent relative to 2008. The higher revenue is mainly due to higher rates.