Traffic at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport reached 6.3 million passengers in July – up by 5 per cent on the same month in 2023.

The Dutch hub said these figures included 2.1 million transit passengers in July, as well as 4.2 million who were arriving or departing from the airport.

The total number of flights in the month was up by 4 per cent year-on-year to 42,452, with 82 per cent going to European destinations and the rest being intercontinental flights. The top destination was Spain followed by the UK, the US, Italy and Greece.

Despite this growth, Schiphol’s performance last month was still 6.3 per cent below the traffic of 6.7 million passengers recorded in July 2019, with the number of flights also down by around 2,300 compared with five years ago.

So far this year, Schiphol’s traffic has increased by 9.9 per cent to 38.1 million for the first seven months of 2024, while the number of flights increased by 10.4 per cent to nearly 273,000 over the same timeframe.

Schiphol has been in the headlines for the past few years as the previous Dutch government attempted to reduce its total flights to 460,000 per year. It was forced to abandon the plan under pressure from the EU and US authorities in November 2023.