Europe's Aviation Market

Monthly Airline Data Updates for the European Market

Discover the Busiest Airports and Airlines in Europe This Month | January 2025

How much airline capacity is there in Europe? Find out with new data each month, detailing:

  • Which is the busiest airport?
  • What is the biggest airline in Europe?
  • Which European country has the most airline capacity?
  • Which regions are most visited?
  • And more.
Data is sourced from OAG's Schedules Analyser; a cutting-edge platform for airline schedule analysis. 

 

Airline Capacity in Europe | January 2025

 

How much airline capacity is there in Europe This Month?

  • Overall capacity in the European market grew by 5.8% vs January 2024.
  • International capacity, which grew by 6.6%, continues to represent 77% share of the market.
  • Domestic capacity grew by 3.2% vs last year.

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European Countries' Airline Capacity | January 2025

 

Which European Country Has The Most Airline Capacity (Domestic + International)?

  • The UK and Spain are the largest markets in capacity terms, with 12.4m and 12m seats respectively. Capacity in Spain has increased by 4.9% vs January 2024, whilst capacity in the UK increased by 4.5%.
  • Percentage wise capacity grew most in Türkiye, growing by 10% vs the previous year to 9.9m seats.
  • Capacity in France grew by 7.6% vs January 2024, despite a decline in growth over the last few months.

Which European Country Has THE Most DOMESTIC Airline Capacity?

 

  • Türkiye and Spain are the largest domestic markets, with 4.5m and 4.3m seats respectively. Domestic capacity in Türkiye grew by 8.2% vs last year.
  • UK domestic capacity also grew by 8.1% vs January 24 to 2m seats.
  • Percentage wise capacity reduced most within the Top 10 countries in Sweden, declining by 12.6% reflecting a decline in demand for domestic air travel in Sweden.

Top Ten Busiest Airports by Departing Seats in Europe | January 2025

 

Which is the Busiest Airport in Europe?

  • Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe with 4.23m seats, with capacity growing by 5.1% vs January 24.
  • Istanbul Airport has grown by 6.9% vs January 2024 and is the second busiest airport with 4.0m seats, only 213,100 fewer seats than Heathrow.
  • Strongest growth again this month in the Top 10 airports comes from Istanbul Sabhia Gokcen Airport (SAW) where carriers have increased capacity by 16.6% year on year.
  • Paris Charles de Gaulle also had double digit growth vs last year, increasing by 11.9% to 3.3m seats.
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Airline Capacity By European Region | January 2025

Which Region of Europe Has Most AIRLINE Capacity?

  • 90% of capacity is from or within Western Europe, growing by 5.2% vs last year to 83.1m seats.
  • Capacity in Eastern/Central Europe grew at a faster rate of 11.3%, to 9.5m seats.
  • Overall, Europe’s seat capacity will increase by 5.8% this month, with more than 5m seats added vs last year.

Where do flights from Europe go?

  • The international seat capacity grew by 6.6% to 71.2m seats.
  • Within Europe, it increased by 5.7% to 54.3m seats, adding 2.9m seats and making up 76% share of the market.
  • Travel to/from Africa grew most by 14.9% vs last year to 4.1m seats, followed by the Asia Pacific market which grew by 14.4% to 3.1m seats.
  • Capacity to North America remained constant.
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Top Ten Airlines in Europe (Departing seats, one-way) | January 2025

 

Which is the biggest airline in Europe?

  • Ryanair is the largest carrier within Europe, with 13.1m seats, despite a decline of 1.1% vs last year. It has 7.7m more seats than easyJet, the second largest carrier.
  • Turkish based LCC Pegasus continued to record the strongest growth amongst the Top 10 European airlines this month, with a year on year increase of 19.1%.
  • Both easyJet and Air France had a 12% increase in capacity year on year.

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