Air travel has bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly one billion passengers in the EU within 2023 alone. Which airport, however, welcomed the most?
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00:00What is the EU's busiest airport?
00:08The latest Eurostat report on air travel has crowned Paris Charles de Gaulle
00:14as the EU's busiest airport with 67 million passengers in 2023.
00:21Amsterdam ranks second followed by Madrid's Barajas,
00:26London's Heathrow is the most crowded in Europe with 79 million passengers.
00:32With 973 million passengers flying within or from the EU in 2023,
00:39the aviation sector seems to have bounced back from the pandemic.
00:44The number of passengers grew in every single member state,
00:48particularly in Malta, Slovenia and the Czech Republic,
00:53with a 19% increase in the EU from 2022.
00:58Other European countries reported even higher surges,
01:03plus 47% in North Macedonia and plus 38% in Serbia.
01:09Nearly half of the trips were made to countries outside the EU,
01:1436% within the bloc and only 15% nationally.
01:20The region where most EU passengers travelled to except for Europe was North America,
01:26followed by Western Asia and North Africa.