Our five national airports welcomed 17.4 million passengers in the second quarter. That is more than 20 percent less than in the same period in 2019. At the same time, the number of flights in trade decreased by more than 15 percent, statistics agency CBS reported on Friday.
Of the nearly 127,000 flights in trade (airline flights to transport passengers, freight and mail for a fee), Schiphol Airport processed the vast majority: about 86 percent.
In this period, 14.9 million people traveled via Schiphol, 22 percent less than in the same quarter of 2019. At that time, 19 million air passengers still traveled via this airport. The airport in Haarlemmermeer also processed more than 16 percent fewer flights in the past quarter.
The number of travelers who flew via Eindhoven Airport and Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the second quarter is again approaching the level before the corona pandemic.
In the second quarter of this year, 1.8 million people traveled via Eindhoven Airport. This is almost 94 percent of the number of travelers who traveled through this airport in the second quarter of 2019.
Rotterdam The Hague Airport processed more than 92 percent of the number of travelers from that quarter. Maastricht Aachen Airport and Groningen Airport Eelde also transported fewer passengers in the second quarter of this year than three years previously.