The amount of cargo flown at Brussels Airport elevated by 6 percent in July in comparison with July of 2023, for a complete of 51,000 tonnes. General cargo volumes also elevated by 6% to approximately 61,000 tonnes.
The fat-cargo segment has fallen by 3 percent, whereas abdominal cargo has considerably elevated, by 36 percent. Specific providers fell a little, by 2 percent, nonetheless became once countered by trucked volumes, which had been up by approximately 9 percent.
Brussels Airport’s important import areas are Asia, Africa and North The US, whereas the main export areas are, again, Asia, followed by North The US and Africa.
There had been 19,212 flight movements in July, a upward thrust of three percent in comparison with the the same month final year. The necessity of passenger flights also elevated by 3 percent in comparison with July 2023. There had been, on common, 152 passengers travelling per flight that month, an lengthen of two passengers per flight in comparison with the the same duration in 2023. That is an all-time file want of passengers per flight. The necessity of cargo flights also recorded an lengthen of three percent, mainly on account of an lengthen interior the fat-cargo segment (+19 percent).
Passenger numbers up
This July, 2,450,771 passengers travelled by Brussels Airport, up 5 percent from July 2023. That is the ideal want of passengers on the airport since 2019. The first driver for the numbers became once the originate of the summer holidays. It became once also the motive why there had been more departures than arrivals in July.
Transfer passengers made up 10 percent of the part. Attributable to a decrease in intra-European transfers and the common excessive want of Belgian holiday travellers in summer, this part is lower than final year.
The ten most-visited nations in July were Spain, Türkiye, Greece, Italy, Germany, Morocco, the US, Portugal, France and the UK.
