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Aci Europe: passenger traffic showed continued resilience in May

And a significant drop in freight sector - ATTACHMENT

European airport trade body ACI EUROPE today released its air traffic report for May 2025, revealing continued disparities in passenger traffic performance across the European airport market, as well as a significant drop in freight traffic.

Passenger traffic in the European airport network increased by +3.4% in May compared to the same month last year, resulting in volumes standing at +8% above pre‑pandemic (May 2019) levels.

The growth was entirely driven by international passenger traffic (+4.3% vs. May 2024), with domestic passenger traffic slightly decreasing (‑0.2% vs. May 2024).

As in previous months, airports outside the EU+ market outperformed in May with passenger volumes growing by +6%. This reflected impressive growth at airports in Moldova (+41.9%), Bosnia & Herzegovina (+30.5%), Georgia (+23.4%), Israel (+17.5%) and Kazakhstan (+14.5%). Meanwhile, the growth dynamic softened for airports in Türkiye (+1.8%), while those in Russia reported declining volumes (‑9.2%).

The EU+ market saw passenger traffic increasing by +2.9% with the best performances coming from airports in the Eastern part of the bloc: Slovakia (+33%), Hungary (+15.3%), Poland (+13.7%) and Slovenia (+13.5%) — along with Cyprus (+10.9%). Conversely, Estonia (‑6.2%), Luxembourg (‑3.6%), Sweden (‑2%), Switzerland (‑1.4%) and Norway (-0.4%) reported declining volumes. Amongst the largest EU+ markets, the best results came from Italy (+4.4%), Spain (+3.3%) and the UK (+1.7%) while Germany (+0.8%) and France (+0.7%) significantly underperformed, hampered by punitive national aviation taxes.

The integral version of the report (4 pages) is attached to this AVIONEWS

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