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Top 100 busiest airports in Europe
UPDATED 2026-11-10This 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
London (LHR)
546 flights every day
2
Istanbul (IST)
514 flights every day
3
Madrid (MAD)
511 flights every day
4
Paris (CDG)
468 flights every day
5
Amsterdam (AMS)
463 flights every day
6
Frankfurt (FRA)
421 flights every day
7
Rome (FCO)
332 flights every day
8
Moscow (SVO)
281 flights every day
9
Munich (MUC)
274 flights every day
10
Dublin (DUB)
262 flights every day
11
Barcelona (BCN)
249 flights every day
12
Copenhagen (CPH)
248 flights every day
13
Vienna (VIE)
232 flights every day
14
Athens (ATH)
229 flights every day
15
Zurich (ZRH)
220 flights every day
16
Milano (MXP)
206 flights every day
17
Oslo (OSL)
202 flights every day
18
Lisbon (LIS)
200 flights every day
19
Paris (ORY)
196 flights every day
20
London (LGW)
192 flights every day
21
London (STN)
189 flights every day
22
Stockholm (ARN)
179 flights every day
23
Manchester (MAN)
179 flights every day
24
Las Palmas (LPA)
165 flights every day
25
Helsinki (HEL)
165 flights every day
26
Malaga (AGP)
164 flights every day
27
Berlin (BER)
159 flights every day
28
Brussels (BRU)
154 flights every day
29
Warsaw (WAW)
152 flights every day
30
Sankt Petersburg (LED)
141 flights every day
31
Budapest (BUD)
133 flights every day
32
Edinburgh (EDI)
123 flights every day
33
Alicante (ALC)
119 flights every day
34
Geneva (GVA)
118 flights every day
35
Milan (LIN)
117 flights every day
36
Prague (PRG)
116 flights every day
37
Dusseldorf (DUS)
115 flights every day
38
Porto (OPO)
111 flights every day
39
Moscow (VKO)
109 flights every day
40
Bergamo (BGY)
105 flights every day
41
Tenerife (TFN)
105 flights every day
42
Bucharest (OTP)
105 flights every day
43
Palma De Mallorca (PMI)
104 flights every day
44
London (LTN)
104 flights every day
45
Nice (NCE)
104 flights every day
46
Tenerife (TFS)
102 flights every day
47
Hamburg (HAM)
101 flights every day
48
Novosibirsk (OVB)
100 flights every day
49
Krakow (KRK)
95 flights every day
50
Beograd (BEG)
92 flights every day
51
Valencia (VLC)
85 flights every day
52
Marseille (MRS)
82 flights every day
53
Sevilla (SVQ)
81 flights every day
54
Lanzarote (ACE)
81 flights every day
55
Birmingham (BHX)
81 flights every day
56
Lyon (LYS)
80 flights every day
57
Bergen (BGO)
80 flights every day
58
Tirana (TIA)
77 flights every day
59
Catania (CTA)
74 flights every day
60
Moscow (DME)
74 flights every day
61
Venice (VCE)
74 flights every day
62
Philipsburg (SXM)
73 flights every day
63
Glasgow (GLA)
71 flights every day
64
Bologna (BLQ)
69 flights every day
65
Sverdlovsk (SVX)
68 flights every day
66
Palermo (PMO)
66 flights every day
67
Valletta (MLA)
65 flights every day
68
Fuerteventura (FUE)
62 flights every day
69
Brussels (CRL)
61 flights every day
70
Toulouse (TLS)
61 flights every day
71
Riga (RIX)
59 flights every day
72
Bristol (BRS)
58 flights every day
73
Bilbao (BIO)
57 flights every day
74
London (LCY)
57 flights every day
75
Basel (BSL)
57 flights every day
76
Luxemburg (LUX)
55 flights every day
77
Cologne (CGN)
54 flights every day
78
Stuttgart (STR)
53 flights every day
79
Sofia (SOF)
53 flights every day
80
Trondheim (TRD)
52 flights every day
81
Tromso (TOS)
51 flights every day
82
Keflavik (KEF)
49 flights every day
83
Torino (TRN)
49 flights every day
84
Gdansk (GDN)
48 flights every day
85
Zagreb (ZAG)
45 flights every day
86
Bari (BRI)
43 flights every day
87
Belfast (BFS)
43 flights every day
88
Bodo (BOO)
42 flights every day
89
Eindhoven (EIN)
42 flights every day
90
Nantes (NTE)
42 flights every day
91
Irkutsk (IKT)
42 flights every day
92
Stavanger (SVG)
41 flights every day
93
Kazan (KZN)
40 flights every day
94
Thessaloniki (SKG)
40 flights every day
95
Willemstad (CUR)
39 flights every day
96
Belfast (BHD)
39 flights every day
97
Liverpool (LPL)
38 flights every day
98
(MRV)
38 flights every day
99
Krasnoyarsk (KJA)
37 flights every day
100
Mersin (COV)
36 flights every day
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