Air passengers carried

STO-REC-STAT97SAAXT1 Official
973 million

European Union · 2023

Air passengers carried in the European Union totalled 973 million in 2023 (Eurostat).

Original source
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