Netherlands hub airport Amsterdam Schiphol carried 5.66 million passengers in June – around 13 per cent lower than during the same month in 2019 despite the continuing recovery in long-haul traffic.
Schiphol, which is at the centre of a legal battle over the Dutch government’s plans to reduce its annual capacity from this winter, said it had handled nearly 39,000 commercial flights last month – up by 5 per cent on June 2022 but still 10 per cent lower than in June 2019.
The airport’s traffic figures include two million transfer passengers who are counted twice as both an arriving and departing traveller.
More than 4 million passengers travelled within Europe from Schiphol in June, up by 5 per cent on June 2022, while 1.6 million flew outside the continent, which was a rise of 16 per cent compared with last year.
Just over 80 per cent of Schiphol’s flights were intra-European services with the rest departing to intercontinental destinations.