Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport increased traffic to 66.8 million passengers in 2024, which was an 8 per cent rise on the previous year’s total.
The Netherlands hub saw total flights increase to just under 474,000 for the year, which was up by 7 per cent on the previous year’s aircraft movements. Schiphol had imposed a “limited reduction” in capacity to 483,000 flights during 2024 to “relieve pressure” during peak times.
Schiphol’s improved traffic remained below pre-Covid levels in 2019 when it catered for 71.7 million passengers and nearly 497,000 annual flights. The number of direct destinations served from the airport has also dropped from 332 in 2019 to 301 last year.
Despite this, Schiphol was still the second-best…































