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Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport was the only one from the former Yugoslavia to rank within the top 100 busiest on the continent last year based on Airports Council International’s (ACI) annual report. With 8.912.349 passengers handled, it was the 74th busiest in Europe. The airport was ahead of the likes of Reykjavik, Glasgow, Sofia, Thessaloniki and Riga but behind Palermo, Ibiza and Lanzarote. During the second half of 2024, it ranked 72nd on the continent with 4.994.956 travellers handled. Over the last year, Belgrade Airport added 544.418 travellers on 2024.
European rank for former Yugoslav airports in 2025
European rank for select airports in the region in 2025
During 2025, London Heathrow Airport was the busiest in Europe, just, handling 84.482.389 passengers, with Istanbul’s main gateway coming in a close second. They were followed Paris Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam, Madrid, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Rome Fiumicino, Istanbul Sabiha Gokcan and Munich. Out of the top ten, six reached or surpassed their pre-pandemic 2019 figures with Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Munich still below their performance from seven years ago. Overall, passenger traffic across the European airport network in 2025 increased by 4.4% when compared to the preceding year, marking a return to “normalised” growth patterns after the bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic. This resulted in Europe’s airports welcoming an additional 100 million passengers and setting a new absolute record of 2.6 billion passengers. While many European airports broke their passenger traffic records, 41% of them finished the year still below their pre-pandemic (2019) levels. Non-EU airports outperformed the European average, with their passenger volumes expanding by 6.2% compared to 4% at EU airports.
Busiest airports in 2025
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