A total of 1.4 million passengers flew through Finnish airports in November 2023

Nearly a quarter of air passengers travelled on domestic flights

In November, a total of 1.1 million passengers flew through Helsinki Airport and altogether 250,000 passengers flew through other domestic airports. Compared to November 2022, the total number of passengers was 8 per cent higher at Helsinki Airport and 9 per cent higher at other domestic airports.

Seventy-seven per cent of the air passengers travelled on international flights and 23 per cent on domestic flights. The share of passengers on international flights was 86 per cent at Helsinki Airport and 36 per cent in total at other domestic airports.

The number of passengers at Helsinki Airport was 28 per cent lower and the combined number of passengers at other domestic airports 24 per cent lower than in November 2019. An exception were the airports of Ivalo, Kittilä, Kuusamo and Rovaniemi, as the number of passengers there exceeded the level of 2019 in November 2023. The year 2019 is used in the statistics as the comparison year to describe the number of air passengers before the pandemic.

Air freight and mail transport totaled 15,619 tonnes in November 2023. In all, one hundred per cent of the tonnes were transported through Helsinki Airport and 99 per cent in traffic between Finland and foreign countries. Altogether 7,509 tonnes (48 %) of the transported volume of goods were incoming and 8,110 tonnes (52 %) were outgoing.