2025 European aviation in numbers

Eurocontrol's latest Data Snapshot takes a first view of core 2025 European aviation network data.

2025 was a year of solid traffic growth in the European aviation network, in a year characterised by strong cooperation between the EUROCONTROL Network Manager and all operational stakeholders. 

In total, 11.12 million flights took place across the network, 4% more than in 2024, and just over the total for pre-pandemic 2019 by 16.8K flights.

Other key network facts include:

• 30,474 average daily flights (vs 29,207 last year)
• higher year-on-year traffic levels across virtually all of the busiest States, airline groups & airports
• 76.1% flight arrival punctuality, 3.5 pp higher than 2024 despite 4% more traffic
• 17% fewer air traffic flow management (ATFM) delays per flight vs 2024, which stood at 2.4 mins/flight (with much of the decrease down to fewer delays caused by bad weather).

The information in this Data Snapshot will be complemented shortly by a comprehensive European Aviation Overview paper, together with an Aviation Engage webinar that will be unpacking these figures with top industry leaders.

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