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Top 100 busiest airports in Europe
UPDATED 2026-09-24This 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
Istanbul (IST)
581 flights every day
2
Amsterdam (AMS)
552 flights every day
3
London (LHR)
530 flights every day
4
Paris (CDG)
514 flights every day
5
Frankfurt (FRA)
511 flights every day
6
Madrid (MAD)
488 flights every day
7
Barcelona (BCN)
414 flights every day
8
Rome (FCO)
384 flights every day
9
Munich (MUC)
380 flights every day
10
Athens (ATH)
339 flights every day
11
Palma De Mallorca (PMI)
321 flights every day
12
Dublin (DUB)
317 flights every day
13
London (LGW)
296 flights every day
14
Copenhagen (CPH)
290 flights every day
15
Zurich (ZRH)
282 flights every day
16
Moscow (SVO)
280 flights every day
17
Vienna (VIE)
278 flights every day
18
Paris (ORY)
253 flights every day
19
Milano (MXP)
243 flights every day
20
Manchester (MAN)
240 flights every day
21
Malaga (AGP)
231 flights every day
22
Oslo (OSL)
231 flights every day
23
Lisbon (LIS)
220 flights every day
24
Berlin (BER)
212 flights every day
25
Stockholm (ARN)
212 flights every day
26
London (STN)
207 flights every day
27
Brussels (BRU)
190 flights every day
28
Warsaw (WAW)
187 flights every day
29
Dusseldorf (DUS)
176 flights every day
30
Helsinki (HEL)
174 flights every day
31
Alicante (ALC)
174 flights every day
32
Edinburgh (EDI)
164 flights every day
33
Sankt Petersburg (LED)
152 flights every day
34
Budapest (BUD)
151 flights every day
35
Geneva (GVA)
148 flights every day
36
Las Palmas (LPA)
148 flights every day
37
London (LTN)
146 flights every day
38
Hamburg (HAM)
140 flights every day
39
Prague (PRG)
139 flights every day
40
Nice (NCE)
135 flights every day
41
Porto (OPO)
127 flights every day
42
Bucharest (OTP)
127 flights every day
43
Moscow (VKO)
123 flights every day
44
Bergamo (BGY)
122 flights every day
45
Naples (NAP)
116 flights every day
46
Birmingham (BHX)
113 flights every day
47
Novosibirsk (OVB)
108 flights every day
48
Milan (LIN)
107 flights every day
49
Venice (VCE)
107 flights every day
50
Krakow (KRK)
107 flights every day
51
Tirana (TIA)
106 flights every day
52
Heraklion (HER)
104 flights every day
53
Beograd (BEG)
102 flights every day
54
Marseille (MRS)
102 flights every day
55
Valencia (VLC)
101 flights every day
56
Catania (CTA)
100 flights every day
57
Tenerife (TFN)
99 flights every day
58
Bristol (BRS)
98 flights every day
59
Cologne (CGN)
95 flights every day
60
Bergen (BGO)
93 flights every day
61
Ibiza (IBZ)
92 flights every day
62
Lyon (LYS)
92 flights every day
63
Faro (FAO)
90 flights every day
64
Palermo (PMO)
90 flights every day
65
Bologna (BLQ)
90 flights every day
66
Valletta (MLA)
90 flights every day
67
Glasgow (GLA)
88 flights every day
68
Brussels (CRL)
85 flights every day
69
Stuttgart (STR)
85 flights every day
70
Basel (BSL)
84 flights every day
71
Moscow (DME)
83 flights every day
72
Sevilla (SVQ)
82 flights every day
73
Tenerife (TFS)
79 flights every day
74
Lanzarote (ACE)
78 flights every day
75
Riga (RIX)
75 flights every day
76
Toulouse (TLS)
74 flights every day
77
Sverdlovsk (SVX)
73 flights every day
78
Thessaloniki (SKG)
68 flights every day
79
Bilbao (BIO)
68 flights every day
80
Rhodes (RHO)
68 flights every day
81
Sofia (SOF)
67 flights every day
82
Nantes (NTE)
67 flights every day
83
Bari (BRI)
65 flights every day
84
Luxemburg (LUX)
64 flights every day
85
Gdansk (GDN)
61 flights every day
86
Belfast (BFS)
60 flights every day
87
London (LCY)
60 flights every day
88
Keflavik (KEF)
58 flights every day
89
Trondheim (TRD)
57 flights every day
90
Liverpool (LPL)
57 flights every day
91
Hanover (HAJ)
56 flights every day
92
Eindhoven (EIN)
56 flights every day
93
Fuerteventura (FUE)
55 flights every day
94
Sochi (AER)
53 flights every day
95
Zagreb (ZAG)
53 flights every day
96
Newcastle (NCL)
52 flights every day
97
Bordeaux (BOD)
51 flights every day
98
Firenze (FLR)
51 flights every day
99
Torino (TRN)
51 flights every day
100
Korfu (CFU)
50 flights every day
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