After July and August, September is the third month in a row with more than 2 million passengers!
In September, 2,002,540 million passengers passed through Brussels Airport, which is 80% of the number of passengers in September 2019. The strong recovery in passenger traffic that we saw during the summer holidays has continued after the holiday period, and business traffic too started to pick up again in September. In addition, there was still a higher number of travellers from the Netherlands who chose Brussels Airport to avoid the large crowds at Dutch airports.
The transfer segment has also recovered strongly in recent months: 17% of the departing passengers are transfer passengers, a figure that is comparable to that of September 2019.
Spain, Italy and Turkiye lead the Top 10.
The ten most popular countries in September were respectively Spain, Italy, Turkiye, Germany, Greece, Portugal, the United States, France, Morocco and the United Kingdom. Turkiye, Greece, Morocco and the United States in particular outperformed September 2019 results.
60,000 tonnes of cargo transported
Cargo traffic at Brussels Airport decreased by 5% in September compared to September 2021 and increased by 30% compared to 2019. In the full freighter segment we see a small decrease of 3%, while integrator traffic dropped by 13%. Belly cargo, on the other hand, increased by 9%.
Number of flights up by 24%
The total number of flight movements in September 2022 has increased by 24% compared to September 2021, to 17,377 flight movements, but this is still a drop of 19% compared to September 2019.
The number of passenger flights is 75% of the number of passenger flights in September 2019. The number of passengers per flight averages 142 passengers per flight, compared to 132 in 2019. The occupancy rate of the flights continues to rise, as does the deployment of larger aircraft.
More details are available in our press release.