With 2.2 million passengers handled in October - 2,228,691 to be precise - Brussels Airport saw its traffic soar (+6%) compared with the same period in 2024. And this despite the strikeThe cumulative impact over the whole year - six days - is estimated by the airport at 250,000 passengers affected, at a cost of 150 million euros.
To a lesser extent, the number of flight movements also increased in October (+3 1TP3Q), with an identical rise in the average number of passengers per flight (151).
According to this report published by Brussels Airport in mid-November, the top ten countries visited from the airport in September were Spain, Italy and Germany. France ranks 8eahead of the United States and Switzerland.
