Air passengers carried
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973 million
European Union · 2023
Air passengers carried in the European Union totalled 973 million in 2023 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Opening paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In 2024, the total number of passengers travelling by air in the EU was 1.1 billion, an increase of 8.3% compared with 2023 (973 million).
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- APA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. (2025). Number of air passengers up 8% in 2024. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251208-1. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_97SAAXQSHTMHWEVS7EZJS2NB0G
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Number of air passengers up 8% in 2024." 2025, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251208-1. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_97SAAXQSHTMHWEVS7EZJS2NB0G.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Number of air passengers up 8% in 2024." 2025. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251208-1. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_97SAAXQSHTMHWEVS7EZJS2NB0G.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2025airlines2nb0g, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Number of air passengers up 8\% in 2024}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_97SAAXQSHTMHWEVS7EZJS2NB0G}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251208-1. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Number of air passengers up 8% in 2024
- Type
- Statistical release
- Published
- 8 December 2025
- Locator
- Opening paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Public
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_97SAAXQSHTMHWEVS7EZJS2NB0G