Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has this week announced the handling of 4.6m passengers in February 2024.
Such news represents strong increases, continuing a strong start for 2024 as a whole so far.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
The Numbers from Amsterdam Schiphol…
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport handled 4.6m passengers, which is an increase of 22% compared to 2023.
Within this, almost 2.8m departed or arrived at the airport, with 1.8m transferring.
3.2m passengers arrived from or flew to a destination in Europe.
1.4m flew to an intercontinental destination or outside of Europe.
The most popular countries for flights from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport are as follows:
- United Kingdom.
- Spain
- Italy
- Turkey
- United States
The number of flights from the airport rose by 24% to 35,104, with Cargo flights being equalled to 1,333 cargo flights.
However, transported volume rose 12% to 121,853 tonnes last month.
Strong Figures Off The Back of an Improved 2023…
Such strong figures represent a continuation of what was a successful improvement in 2023.
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport announced in January the handling of 61.7m passengers overall for 2023, a significant increase.
Despite the 18% increase compared to 2022, the numbers are still 14% less than in 2019, which is known as the pre-pandemic era.
In their report, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport said the following on their performance for 2023:
“Of the almost 61.7 million travellers in 2023, 39.1 million flew directly to or from Schiphol. 36% of travellers had a connecting flight at Schiphol.”
“There were more than 11 million unique transfer passengers. In accordance with the international counting method, these travellers were counted twice; once as an arriving traveller and once as a departing traveller.”
“Last year, there were 441,963 air transport movements to and from the airport. That is an increase of 11% compared to 2022 (397,646 aircraft movements) and 11% less than in 2019 (496,826 aircraft movements). There were 425,994 passenger flights and 15.969 cargo flights.”
“Schiphol handled 1.37 million tonnes of cargo, a decrease of 4.8% compared to 2022 (1.44 million tonnes). There were 15,969 cargo only flights. That is 12.9% less than in 2022 (18,340 cargo flights).”
The operator also noted that Eindhoven Airport’s numbers increased to 6.8 million for 2023, with Rotterdam The Hague increasing five percentage points to 2.2m.
Overall…
In conclusion, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport performed well last month.
However, more work will need to be done if they aim to get their passenger numbers back to the pre-pandemic levels.
All eyes will be on how they will get this far, especially if more flights are allowed in and out.
But for now, let’s see how they perform throughout the rest of 2024.
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