{
  "study": {
    "slug": "air-passengers-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Air Travel in the EU Is Back Above Its Pre-Pandemic Level",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/air-passengers-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Change in air passengers carried, 2019 to 2025",
  "valueHeading": "% change from 2019 (derived)",
  "selection": "The three largest increases among the 27 Member States and all six Member States still below their 2019 level, with the EU total for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU total",
  "note": "Derived by Silver Data Lab from two published counts: passengers carried in 2025 divided by passengers carried in 2019, minus one, expressed as a percentage. The EU figure is the change in Eurostat's own aggregate, which counts a passenger on a flight between two Member States once, where the national figures count that passenger in both countries. No value used carries a Eurostat flag.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Air transport of passengers by country (yearly data)",
    "code": "ttr00012",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "unit": "PAS",
      "tra_meas": "PAS_CRD",
      "tra_cov": "TOTAL",
      "schedule": "TOTAL"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-22",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-21",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/ttr00012",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ttr00012/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Malta",
      "value": 37.6,
      "gap_to_reference": 31.9,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Poland",
      "value": 36.7,
      "gap_to_reference": 31,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Greece",
      "value": 30.2,
      "gap_to_reference": 24.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 5.7,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Netherlands",
      "value": -3.4,
      "gap_to_reference": -9.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Slovenia",
      "value": -7.4,
      "gap_to_reference": -13.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Germany",
      "value": -8.6,
      "gap_to_reference": -14.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "name": "Latvia",
      "value": -8.8,
      "gap_to_reference": -14.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "name": "Sweden",
      "value": -18.9,
      "gap_to_reference": -24.6,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 9,
      "name": "Finland",
      "value": -19.7,
      "gap_to_reference": -25.4,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}