In September 2025, there were 653 072 commercial flights in the EU. This marked a 2.6% increase when compared with the flight count in September 2024. However, the number remained 1.8% lower than the flight count for the same month in 2019.
The same trend was visible throughout June – August. All months saw an increase compared with 2024: June (2.8%), July (2.9%) and August (3.3%). While the figures were still below those from the 2019 pre-pandemic levels, however they were getting close to the pre-pandemic levels: June (-2.1%), July (-1.7%) and August (-0.3%).
This information comes from monthly flight data on commercial flights published by Eurostat today.
Commercial flights in the EU, June-September, 2019-2025. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.
Looking at the latest country data for September 2025, 12 countries exceeded their flight counts compared with 2019. Cyprus (+24.1%), Poland (+22.4%) and Greece (+21.4%) surpassed their 2019 figures the most and saw a significant increase in the number of commercial flights. By contrast, Latvia (-29.8%), Sweden (-27.3%) and Finland (-23.9%) are still far from the 2019 figures. (....)