In July 2024, traffic in the European aviation network was 4.5% up compared to July 2023, with an average of 34,379 flights per day. Compared to 2019 traffic is at 97% and, with up to 20% of the Network’s airspace unavailable due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nearly half (18) of the air navigation service providers (ANSPs) are managing exceptional increases in traffic (some of which was not forecasted) of more than 15% above 2019 levels, notably in the south east axis: Serbia/Montenegro (+31%), Croatia (+29%), Austria (+23%), Hungary (+22%), Greece (+20%) and Bulgaria (+16%). Other key parts of the Network, such as Italy (+12%), Türkiye (+12%) and Spain (+11%) are also well above pre-pandemic levels. (....)