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Top 100 busiest airports in Europe
UPDATED 2025-10-09This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Europe measured by scheduled departures daily (and not number of passengers). Note that we have only accounted for scheduled passenger flights and not freighters or chartered flights. The numbers are the daily avarage from next week.
If you combine all departures from Londons five airports they would add up to over 1400 flights every day. No other city in the world has that many flight departures (2018).
Frankfurt with a top placement on this list also has the record with most destinations in the world.
1
Amsterdam (AMS)
595 flights every day
2
London (LHR)
576 flights every day
3
Frankfurt (FRA)
537 flights every day
4
Paris (CDG)
501 flights every day
5
Madrid (MAD)
496 flights every day
6
Barcelona (BCN)
447 flights every day
7
Munich (MUC)
419 flights every day
8
Rome (FCO)
390 flights every day
9
Dublin (DUB)
344 flights every day
10
Palma De Mallorca (PMI)
342 flights every day
11
Athens (ATH)
342 flights every day
12
Vienna (VIE)
325 flights every day
13
London (LGW)
323 flights every day
14
Copenhagen (CPH)
300 flights every day
15
Paris (ORY)
298 flights every day
16
Moscow (SVO)
292 flights every day
17
Zurich (ZRH)
289 flights every day
18
Lisbon (LIS)
256 flights every day
19
Oslo (OSL)
252 flights every day
20
London (STN)
251 flights every day
21
Manchester (MAN)
250 flights every day
22
Milano (MXP)
245 flights every day
23
Malaga (AGP)
241 flights every day
24
Stockholm (ARN)
240 flights every day
25
Berlin (BER)
226 flights every day
26
Brussels (BRU)
211 flights every day
27
Sankt Petersburg (LED)
201 flights every day
28
Warsaw (WAW)
189 flights every day
29
Dusseldorf (DUS)
180 flights every day
30
Moscow (VKO)
175 flights every day
31
Alicante (ALC)
173 flights every day
32
Geneva (GVA)
170 flights every day
33
Edinburgh (EDI)
168 flights every day
34
Helsinki (HEL)
164 flights every day
35
Las Palmas (LPA)
160 flights every day
36
Bucharest (OTP)
157 flights every day
37
Budapest (BUD)
154 flights every day
38
Porto (OPO)
146 flights every day
39
Bergamo (BGY)
145 flights every day
40
Nice (NCE)
142 flights every day
41
London (LTN)
137 flights every day
42
Prague (PRG)
136 flights every day
43
Hamburg (HAM)
136 flights every day
44
Milan (LIN)
122 flights every day
45
Naples (NAP)
122 flights every day
46
Moscow (DME)
119 flights every day
47
Birmingham (BHX)
118 flights every day
48
Krakow (KRK)
113 flights every day
49
Marseille (MRS)
111 flights every day
50
Valencia (VLC)
108 flights every day
51
Tenerife (TFN)
108 flights every day
52
Bristol (BRS)
107 flights every day
53
Lyon (LYS)
107 flights every day
54
Bologna (BLQ)
107 flights every day
55
Novosibirsk (OVB)
106 flights every day
56
Sochi (AER)
105 flights every day
57
Faro (FAO)
105 flights every day
58
Catania (CTA)
105 flights every day
59
Beograd (BEG)
105 flights every day
60
Venice (VCE)
103 flights every day
61
Bergen (BGO)
102 flights every day
62
Brussels (CRL)
100 flights every day
63
Cologne (CGN)
99 flights every day
64
Stuttgart (STR)
99 flights every day
65
Ibiza (IBZ)
94 flights every day
66
Tirana (TIA)
94 flights every day
67
Heraklion (HER)
93 flights every day
68
Basel (BSL)
92 flights every day
69
Tenerife (TFS)
92 flights every day
70
Valletta (MLA)
90 flights every day
71
Sverdlovsk (SVX)
90 flights every day
72
Glasgow (GLA)
87 flights every day
73
Sevilla (SVQ)
85 flights every day
74
Lanzarote (ACE)
82 flights every day
75
Thessaloniki (SKG)
77 flights every day
76
Toulouse (TLS)
77 flights every day
77
Palermo (PMO)
76 flights every day
78
Riga (RIX)
75 flights every day
79
Nantes (NTE)
73 flights every day
80
Bari (BRI)
72 flights every day
81
Sofia (SOF)
70 flights every day
82
London (LCY)
70 flights every day
83
Bilbao (BIO)
67 flights every day
84
Luxemburg (LUX)
66 flights every day
85
Trondheim (TRD)
65 flights every day
86
Keflavik (KEF)
64 flights every day
87
Gdansk (GDN)
63 flights every day
88
Belfast (BFS)
61 flights every day
89
Eindhoven (EIN)
61 flights every day
90
Fuerteventura (FUE)
60 flights every day
91
Rhodes (RHO)
60 flights every day
92
Hanover (HAJ)
59 flights every day
93
Beauvais (BVA)
59 flights every day
94
Liverpool (LPL)
59 flights every day
95
Pisa (PSA)
58 flights every day
96
Zagreb (ZAG)
57 flights every day
97
Bordeaux (BOD)
57 flights every day
98
Firenze (FLR)
56 flights every day
99
Cagliari (CAG)
56 flights every day
100
Stavanger (SVG)
52 flights every day
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