158 Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Statistics for 2026

How many passengers use Schiphol each year?

Schiphol is one of the five busiest airports in Europe, but it has not yet returned to its 2019 peak. Traffic grew for most of the 2000s and 2010s, fell by more than two thirds in 2020 and has climbed back each year since.

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Passengers at Amsterdam Schiphol in selected years, in millions, on CBS figures. 2025 is provisional.

Period	Value
2000	39.3m
2005	44.1m
2010	45.1m
2015	58.2m
2018	71.0m
2019	71.7m
2020	20.9m
2021	25.5m
2022	52.5m
2023	61.9m
2024	66.8m
2025	68.8m

• CBS counted 39,270,610 passengers at Schiphol in 2000, 43,523,110 in 2009 after the financial crisis and 58,245,291 in 2015. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• Traffic then grew fast, to 68,400,387 passengers in 2017 and 70,956,594 in 2018. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• The pandemic cut passenger numbers to 20,884,510 in 2020 and 25,490,810 in 2021. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• They recovered to 52,470,880 in 2022 and 61,887,628 in 2023. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• Royal Schiphol Group counted 66.8 million passengers in 2024, 8% more than in 2023 and 7% fewer than in 2019. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results), Feb 2025)
• The group's three Dutch airports handled 78.1 million passengers in 2025, with 7.0 million at Eindhoven and 2.4 million at Rotterdam The Hague, against 80.5 million in 2019. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• In ACI World's 2025 ranking Schiphol sat between Paris-CDG, 14th with 72,029,407 passengers, and Madrid, 18th with 68,118,754. (ACI World (2025 rankings), Jul 2026)
• ACI EUROPE ranked Schiphol the fourth busiest airport in Europe in 2025, behind London Heathrow, Istanbul and Paris-CDG. (ACI EUROPE (2025 traffic report), Feb 2026)
• On Eurostat's count of passengers carried, Schiphol was the second busiest airport in the EU in 2025 with 68,770,805, behind Paris-CDG (72,002,540) and ahead of Madrid (68,043,437). (Eurostat (passengers by airport), Nov 2026)
• Schiphol says the ACI Airport Industry Connectivity Report 2025 ranks it Europe's second best connected airport for direct flights, and third in Europe and fifth in the world for hub connections. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 traffic release), Jan 2026)

CBS and Eurostat publish exact counts built from operator data; Royal Schiphol Group rounds its own count to one decimal place, and ACI World counts total passengers at each airport. Their 2025 figures differ slightly, so each is named and they are not merged. CBS figures up to 2024 are final and 2025 is provisional. The ACI international ranking is the April 2026 preliminary table.

How busy is Schiphol in 2026?

Passenger numbers in 2026 are running at about the same level as in 2025, but with fewer flights. Severe winter weather hit January, and the war in the Middle East and high fuel prices weighed on the spring.

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Passengers at Schiphol each month in 2026, in millions, on CBS's provisional monthly figures.

Period	Value
Jan	4.37m
Feb	4.59m
Mar	5.40m
Apr	5.98m
May	6.29m
Jun	6.06m
Jul	6.58m
Aug	6.63m

• Schiphol had 32.8 million passengers in the first half of 2025 and 34.5 million in the first half of 2019. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• Schiphol had 223,597 air traffic movements in the first half of 2026, 4% fewer than the 232,709 a year earlier. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• Severe winter weather at the start of January 2026 led to the cancellation of several thousand flights, and Schiphol and KLM commissioned an independent review by Oliver Wyman. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• CBS counted 4,365,420 passengers and 31,354 commercial flights at Schiphol in January 2026. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• In the first quarter of 2026 CBS counted 14,358,527 passengers and 101,932 commercial flights. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• In the second quarter CBS counted 18,326,550 passengers and 121,663 commercial flights. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• August 2026 had 6,626,458 passengers, the most of any month in 2026 so far on CBS figures. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• From January to August 2026 Schiphol handled about 45.9 million passengers, about the same as a year earlier, on about 3.5% fewer commercial flights, calculated from CBS monthly figures. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• In the first half of 2024, 31.8 million passengers (up 11%) used Schiphol on 230,417 flights (up 12%). (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2024 results), Aug 2024)
• In February 2026 Schiphol forecast 68 to 72 million travellers for calendar year 2026. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• Schiphol expected more than 12.7 million travellers in the 2026 summer holidays, from 3 July to 30 August, against around 12.4 million a year earlier. (Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2026 forecast), Jul 2026)
• It expected 3.5 million travellers, departing and returning, during the May 2026 holidays. (Royal Schiphol Group (May 2026 forecast), Apr 2026)
• Schiphol expects passenger numbers to reach at least 90 million a year by 2050. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)

Royal Schiphol Group's half-year figures are rounded; the CBS monthly and quarterly figures are provisional. The January to August totals and changes are our sums of the CBS monthly figures, not numbers CBS publishes. The 2026 and 2050 numbers are Schiphol's own forecasts, labelled with the date they were made.

Which are Schiphol's busiest months?

July and August are Schiphol's busiest months, with more than 6.5 million passengers each, and January and February are the quietest. Flight numbers follow the same pattern but swing less than passenger numbers.

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Passengers at Schiphol each month from January to August 2025, in millions, on CBS figures.

Period	Value
Jan	4.80m
Feb	4.69m
Mar	5.32m
Apr	5.83m
May	6.09m
Jun	6.03m
Jul	6.55m
Aug	6.62m

• Schiphol handled 4.8 million passengers in January 2025, almost 6% more than a year earlier, on 35,717 flights, and 104,361 tonnes of cargo. (Royal Schiphol Group (January 2025 traffic), Feb 2025)
• February 2025 had 4.7 million passengers, up 1%, and 34,342 flights, down 2%. (Royal Schiphol Group (February 2025 traffic), Mar 2025)
• March 2025 had 5.3 million passengers on 38,873 flights, and 131,645 tonnes of cargo. (Royal Schiphol Group (March 2025 traffic), Apr 2025)
• Almost 6.1 million passengers used Schiphol in May 2025, up 2%, on 42,674 flights. (Royal Schiphol Group (May 2025 traffic), Jun 2025)
• June 2025 had 6 million passengers on 40,737 flights; cargo fell to 104,196 tonnes from 121,648 a year earlier because of temporary operational factors. (Royal Schiphol Group (June 2025 traffic), Jul 2025)
• Almost 6.6 million passengers used Schiphol in July 2025, up 4%, on 43,320 flights; Spain, the UK and Greece were the top destinations. (Royal Schiphol Group (July 2025 traffic), Aug 2025)
• CBS counted 6,621,920 passengers and 43,614 commercial flights at Schiphol in August 2025. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• September 2025 had 6.1 million passengers, up 1%, and 41,374 flights, down 1%. (Royal Schiphol Group (September 2025 traffic), Oct 2025)
• October 2025 had 6.2 million passengers, up 3%, on 42,007 flights, one more than in October 2024. (Royal Schiphol Group (October 2025 traffic), Nov 2025)
• November 2025 had 5.2 million passengers on 36,991 flights, and cargo rose 7% to 129,287 tonnes. (Royal Schiphol Group (November 2025 traffic), Dec 2025)
• CBS counted 5,286,627 passengers and 37,535 commercial flights in December 2025. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• More than 180,000 travellers used Schiphol on every day of the May 2025 holiday, and up to 212,000 on the busiest days; it had 86,936 commercial flights in the 2025 summer holidays. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 results document), Feb 2026)

The monthly releases are Royal Schiphol Group's preliminary figures, rounded, and count flights to and from Schiphol. CBS publishes exact monthly figures from the same operator data, which differ slightly. August and December 2025 come from CBS because no Schiphol release for those months was available. Schiphol's April 2025 release gave two different passenger totals, so it is left out.

How many Schiphol passengers are transferring?

More than a third of Schiphol's passenger count is transfer traffic, which makes it one of Europe's main hubs. Schiphol counts each transfer passenger as an arrival and a departure, so transfer figures count movements, and the number of people changing planes is about half of them.

• Origin or destination 43.6m
• Transfer 25.2m

• In July 2025, 4.2 million passengers started or ended their journey at Schiphol, and more than 1.1 million transfer passengers made 2.3 million transfer movements, each counted once arriving and once departing. (Royal Schiphol Group (July 2025 traffic), Aug 2025)
• 13.2 million travellers used Schiphol in July and August 2025, up 3.6%; almost 8.6 million flew directly to or from Schiphol and there were 4.6 million transfer movements. (Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2025), Sep 2025)
• Schiphol expected around 219,000 travellers a day in the 2026 summer holidays, against 213,000 in 2025: 71,000 departing, 71,000 arriving and 77,000 transferring. (Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2026 forecast), Jul 2026)
• CBS counted 34,614,575 arriving and 34,156,230 departing passengers at Schiphol in 2025. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• 67,956,403 of them flew on scheduled flights and 814,402 on non-scheduled (charter) flights. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)

Airports count passengers under the international counting method, in which a transfer passenger is counted once on arrival and once on departure. The summer 2026 daily figures are a forecast made in July 2026, for a different period from the July and August 2025 count, so the two are not compared.

Where do Schiphol passengers fly to?

About seven in ten Schiphol passengers fly within Europe, and North America and Asia are the largest long-haul markets. Long-haul traffic to Asia, and Northeast Asia above all, is still well below 2019.

1. 1 North America 7.34m
2. 2 Asia 6.32m
3. 3 Africa 2.77m
4. 4 Central America 1.91m
5. 5 South America 1.56m

• Spain, the UK, Italy, the US and Turkey were the most popular countries for travellers leaving Schiphol in 2025; in 2024 the UK was first. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 traffic release), Jan 2026)
• CBS counted 48,875,230 Schiphol passengers on European flights in 2025: 33,622,811 to or from the EU and 15,252,419 to or from the rest of Europe, including the UK. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• 19,895,575 passengers flew on intercontinental flights in 2025, including 7,336,863 to or from North America and 2,774,575 to or from Africa. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• Asian flights carried 6,320,666 passengers in 2025: 2,383,963 to West Asia, 1,867,921 to Southeast Asia and 2,068,782 to Northeast Asia. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• In 2019 Schiphol had 21,124,981 intercontinental and 50,554,748 European passengers; North America had 7,604,166 and Asia 7,247,192, with 2,802,083 in Northeast Asia. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• Central America is one of the few regions that grew from 2019, from 1,742,493 passengers to 1,907,636 in 2025, while South America fell from 1,659,030 to 1,555,835. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• In 2024, 47.6 million Schiphol travellers flew to or from Europe and 19.2 million to or from intercontinental destinations. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results), Feb 2025)
• Schiphol connected the Netherlands directly to 301 destinations in the first half of 2026, 122 of them intercontinental. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• In 2019 Schiphol had 332 direct destinations, 138 of them intercontinental. (Royal Schiphol Group (2019 annual results), Feb 2020)

CBS assigns passengers to the region of the flight's origin or destination airport, so a transfer passenger is counted on both flights. The UK has been counted in the rest of Europe, not the EU, since 2021, so EU and non-EU shares are not compared across those years. There are no direct flights to Oceania.

How many flights use Schiphol?

Schiphol handles close to half a million flights a year, about as many as before the pandemic, and the cap now keeps the number flat. The total depends on which count you use.

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Commercial flights at Schiphol in selected years, in thousands, arrivals and departures, on CBS figures. 2025 is provisional.

Period	Value
2000	414.9k
2005	404.6k
2010	386.3k
2015	450.7k
2018	499.4k
2019	496.8k
2020	227.3k
2021	267.0k
2022	397.6k
2023	442.0k
2024	473.8k
2025	477.5k

• Schiphol's own count was 473,815 air transport movements in 2024 and 496,826 in 2019. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• It counted 227,304 movements in 2020, 266,967 in 2021, 397,646 in 2022 and 441,969 in 2023. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results), Feb 2025)
• CBS counted 477,538 commercial flights at Schiphol in 2025, 471,489 of them scheduled and 6,049 non-scheduled. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• On CBS figures commercial flights peaked at 499,444 in 2018, up from 414,927 in 2000. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• ACI World counted 499,057 aircraft movements at Schiphol in 2025, including non-commercial flights, the 12th most in the world and ahead of Heathrow (480,005) and Paris-CDG (479,575). (ACI World (2025 rankings), Jul 2026)
• The Schiphol-Oostbaan runway will close for its largest refurbishment ever from 20 March to 8 August 2027; some of its parts date from the 1950s. (Royal Schiphol Group (2027 operating forecast), Nov 2026)

Three counts of Schiphol's 2025 flights appear on this page. Royal Schiphol Group counts air transport movements (477,552) and CBS counts commercial flights (477,538); both cover commercial traffic and differ slightly. ACI World's 499,057 aircraft movements include non-commercial flights. They measure different things and none of them is the single figure for the year. All are calendar years, while the cap applies to an operating year from November to October.

What is the cap on flights at Schiphol?

Schiphol has worked under a fixed annual limit on flights for years, and the Dutch government has lowered it since 2023. The current caps were set by decree in 2025, annulled by the courts in 2026 and then made law again in a new airport traffic decree.

• Before the 2025 decree, Schiphol's capacity was based on 500,000 aircraft movements a year, with a night maximum of 32,000 written into the airport traffic decree from 1 November 2018. (Government of the Netherlands (Staatsblad 2025, 119), May 2025)
• A 2021 draft decree that would have fixed the same annual number, with 29,000 at night, was never finalised. The 2025 decree followed a Balanced Approach procedure that set a range of 475,000 to 485,000 movements a year, and took effect on 1 November 2025. (Government of the Netherlands (Staatsblad 2025, 119), May 2025)
• In February 2023 Schiphol said that cutting flights to 460,000 a year, as proposed in the government's Preliminary Scheme, was a necessary intermediate step. (Royal Schiphol Group (Preliminary Scheme statement), Feb 2023)
• Under that scheme Schiphol set a maximum of 280,645 flights for the 2024 summer season, about 12,400 fewer than in summer 2023. (Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2024 capacity), Sep 2023)
• After the Minister of Infrastructure suspended the scheme on 14 November 2023, Schiphol set room for 483,000 flights in 2024, including 293,000 in the summer season, and cut one morning peak from 68 to 65 arrivals an hour. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 capacity), Dec 2023)
• On 11 March 2026 the Council of State, the highest Dutch administrative court, annulled the 2025 decree that set the caps, finding too little reasoning that the cap worked as a noise limit. (Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure (letter, 1 Apr 2026), Apr 2026)
• The government kept the night maximum in place through a provisional measure and continued to tolerate traffic up to the same annual maximum while a new decree was prepared. (Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure (letter, 20 Apr 2026), Apr 2026)
• Schiphol's new Airport Traffic Decree took effect on 1 November 2026 with the same annual and night caps, the first new decree in eighteen years. (Royal Schiphol Group (new traffic decree), Nov 2026)
• The Dutch government decided in 2026 that Lelystad Airport will open to commercial traffic; Royal Schiphol Group is spending €35 to 40 million to prepare it, for passenger flights from November 2027. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)

The caps count commercial aircraft movements per operating year, which starts on 1 November, so they are not directly comparable with calendar-year flight counts. The 460,000 figure was a proposal that was suspended, and 483,000 was Schiphol's capacity declaration for 2024, not a legal cap. Dates are those of the decrees, ministerial letters and Schiphol statements cited.

How noisy is Schiphol, and how many night flights are there?

Noise is the main reason for the limits on Schiphol, and the measured figures are falling as airlines bring in newer aircraft. The government's latest interim evaluation shows most of its noise targets already met.

1. 1 Homes in 48 Lnight contour 35%
2. 2 Residents with sleep disturbance 29.8%
3. 3 Severely affected residents 17%
4. 4 Homes in 58 Lden contour 14%

• In April 2023 Schiphol proposed ending take-offs between 00:00 and 06:00 and landings between 00:00 and 05:00, which would mean 10,000 fewer night flights a year, banning private jets and dropping plans for a parallel Kaagbaan runway. (Royal Schiphol Group (eight-point plan), Apr 2023)
• It also pledged €70 million to 2030, €10 million a year, for a local environment fund. (Royal Schiphol Group (eight-point plan), Apr 2023)
• Schiphol's modelling found that a curfew plus bans on private jets and the noisiest aircraft would cut the 111,400 people highly annoyed by noise by 15.5% and the 24,500 with severe sleep disturbance by 46.8%. (Royal Schiphol Group (curfew modelling), Jun 2023)
• For the 2024 operating year Schiphol cut the limit on private and small business flights from 17,000 to 12,000 and listed 87 aircraft types that were no longer welcome. (Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2024 capacity), Sep 2023)
• The competition regulator ACM ruled in 2025 that Schiphol may not ban certain aircraft types on its own. (Royal Schiphol Group (ACM approval), Jun 2025)
• The new traffic decree includes targets to cut noise nuisance by 20% during the day and 15% at night, and more than 40% of aircraft at Schiphol are now in the newest and quietest categories. (Royal Schiphol Group (new traffic decree), Nov 2026)
• Schiphol expects about 45% of flights in the 2027 operating year to use aircraft in the quietest noise categories. (Royal Schiphol Group (2027 operating forecast), Nov 2026)
• The second interim Balanced Approach evaluation found 17% fewer severely affected residents and 29.8% fewer with sleep disturbance, against targets of 15%. (Royal Schiphol Group (Balanced Approach evaluation), Aug 2026)
• It found 14% fewer homes inside the 58 Lden noise contour and 35% fewer inside the 48 Lnight contour. (Royal Schiphol Group (Balanced Approach evaluation), Aug 2026)
• The average noise level from air traffic around Schiphol in 2025 was about 2 decibels lower than in 2018, and newer aircraft types were measured 3 to 5 decibels quieter on departure than the types they replace. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• 38% of flights in the first half of 2026 fell in Schiphol's two quietest charging categories, against 29% a year earlier. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• 32.6% of aircraft operating from April to December 2025 were in the two quietest categories, up almost 8.8% on the year before. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• Royal Schiphol Group says it is convinced that, with the sector, it can make Schiphol 50% quieter at night. (Royal Schiphol Group (coalition agreement response), Feb 2026)

The Balanced Approach evaluation is the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management's, as summarised by Schiphol; its results are preliminary and final figures are due in December 2026. The 2023 plan and modelling were Schiphol proposals, not rules. The 111,400 highly annoyed people in the modelling and the 150,000 severely affected people in the 2027 forecast use different areas and measures and are not compared.

How much cargo does Schiphol handle?

Schiphol handles well over a million tonnes of cargo a year, and most of its freight comes from or goes to Asia. Volumes fell in 2025 but are up sharply in 2026.

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Air freight loaded and unloaded at Schiphol in selected years, in million tonnes, excluding mail, on CBS figures. 2025 is provisional.

Period	Value
2000	1.22m
2005	1.45m
2010	1.51m
2015	1.62m
2017	1.75m
2019	1.57m
2020	1.44m
2021	1.67m
2022	1.44m
2023	1.38m
2024	1.49m
2025	1.43m

• There were 15,348 cargo-only flights at Schiphol in 2025, 2% fewer than in 2024. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 traffic release), Jan 2026)
• Cargo rose 8% to 1.49 million tonnes in 2024, carried on 15,661 cargo-only flights, 11% more than in 2019. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results), Feb 2025)
• 44% of Schiphol's cargo went on passenger flights in 2025 and 56% on full freighters. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• Schiphol handled 757 thousand tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2026, up 10.0% from 688 thousand. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results document), Jul 2026)
• There were 8,160 full cargo flights in the first half of 2026, up 8%, and the share carried on full freighters rose to 58%. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• Freight from January to August 2026 was about 1.01 million tonnes, about a tenth more than a year earlier, calculated from CBS monthly figures. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• On CBS figures Schiphol's air freight peaked at 1,752,357 tonnes in 2017, against 1,222,594 in 2000 and 1,570,246 in 2019. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• Freight reached 1,667,304 tonnes in 2021, during the pandemic, more than in 2019. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• 1,296,665 tonnes of Schiphol's 2025 freight was on intercontinental flights, and Asia accounted for 821,181 tonnes, 464,702 of them to or from Northeast Asia. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• The Americas accounted for 377,204 tonnes, North America 233,954 of them, Europe for 132,189 tonnes and Africa for 98,279. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• 759,443 tonnes of freight were unloaded at Schiphol in 2025 and 669,411 tonnes loaded. (CBS (aviation monthly figures), Sep 2026)
• In 2023 Schiphol proposed keeping 2.5% of its take-off and landing slots for cargo. (Royal Schiphol Group (eight-point plan), Apr 2023)

CBS counts air freight excluding mail and excluding goods trucked to other airports; Royal Schiphol Group reports its own cargo totals, which are close to CBS's but rounded. The January to August 2026 figure is our sum of CBS months. The 2.5% slot reservation was a Schiphol proposal.

How punctual are flights at Schiphol?

Schiphol is in the middle of Europe's big hubs for arrivals and near the bottom for departures. About a third of departing flights were not on time in 2025.

1. 1 Munich 80.4%
2. 2 Madrid 80.0%
3. 3 London Heathrow 79.4%
4. 4 Istanbul 79.1%
5. 5 Frankfurt 76.8%
6. 6 Paris-CDG 76.2%
7. 7 Amsterdam 75.1%
8. 8 London Gatwick 71.9%
9. 9 Athens 67.9%

• 65.2% of departures from Schiphol were on time, within 15 minutes, in 2025. (EUROCONTROL (Performance Review Report 2025), Mar 2026)
• London Heathrow had 79.4% of arrivals and 78.3% of departures on time, Frankfurt 76.8% and 67.0%, and Paris-CDG 76.2% and 64.6%. (EUROCONTROL (Performance Review Report 2025), Mar 2026)
• Madrid had 80.0% of arrivals and 70.6% of departures on time, Munich 80.4% and 76.3%, and Istanbul 79.1% and 80.4%. (EUROCONTROL (Performance Review Report 2025), Mar 2026)
• Schiphol said it was second for on-time performance among European hub airports in 2024, on its own comparison. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results), Feb 2025)

EUROCONTROL's on-time shares (OTP15) come from airport operator data and count flights within 15 minutes of schedule. Schiphol's 2024 ranking is its own comparison, and its method is not published, so it is not set against EUROCONTROL's figures.

How much money does Schiphol make?

Royal Schiphol Group's profits rose sharply in 2025 after a large increase in airport charges, but it is spending more than it earns on a long programme of repairs and renewal. It has cut its dividend and borrowed to pay for it.

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Royal Schiphol Group revenue, in € million. Each year comes from the results release for that year; the link is to the latest one.

Period	Value
2019	€1,615m
2022	€1,491m
2023	€1,852m
2024	€2,245m
2025	€2,761m

• Underlying EBITDA was €1,122 million in 2025, against €734 million in 2024, and the underlying operating result €729 million, against €380 million. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• The underlying net result, excluding property revaluations, was €550 million, which Schiphol put down to more passengers and flights and the new airport charges. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• The group invested €1,056 million in its airports in 2025; cash flow after investment was €22 million negative, and it will pay a €162 million dividend for the year. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• Schiphol plans to invest €10 billion to improve its airports between 2025 and 2035. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)
• The reported net result for shareholders was €540 million in 2025, against €407 million; underlying return on equity was 13.2% and solvency 42.6%. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 results document), Feb 2026)
• In September 2025 the group and its shareholders cut the maximum dividend pay-out from 60% to 30% of profit for 2025 to 2029, to pay for its investment plan. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 results document), Feb 2026)
• Royal Schiphol Group employed an average of 3,831 full-time equivalents at its four airports in 2025, up 8.6% from 3,527; these are its own staff, not everyone who works at the airport. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 results document), Feb 2026)
• The underlying result was €19 million negative in 2022, €110 million in 2023 and €291 million in 2024. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results), Feb 2025)
• €1,057 million was invested in the airport in 2024. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results), Feb 2025)
• In August 2024 Schiphol announced a €6 billion investment plan for 2024 to 2029, later replaced by the larger plan to 2035. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2024 results), Aug 2024)
• In 2019 the group invested €860 million. (Royal Schiphol Group (2019 annual results), Feb 2020)
• Revenue rose 5.6% to €1,333 million in the first half of 2026, and the underlying net result was €215 million, against €214 million. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• A record €801 million was invested in the first six months of 2026, and cash flow after investment was €464 million negative. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• Schiphol issued €500 million of bonds in March 2026, maturing in almost ten years with a 3.625% coupon, against orders of €3.2 billion. (Royal Schiphol Group (bond issue), Mar 2026)

These are figures for Royal Schiphol Group, which also owns Eindhoven, Rotterdam The Hague and Lelystad airports and property, not for Amsterdam Schiphol alone. Underlying results exclude property revaluations; reported results include them. Investment plans are plans, not money spent.

How much are Schiphol's airport charges?

Airlines pay much more to use Schiphol since the 2025 increase, and night flights cost several times more than daytime ones. In 2026 Schiphol kept its charges level and gave a temporary discount because of high fuel prices.

1. 1 Airport charges €1,888m
2. 2 Concessions €254m
3. 3 Rent and leases €234m
4. 4 Other €203m
5. 5 Parking €182m

• Revenue from airport charges at the group's three airports rose 34% to €1,888 million in 2025. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 results document), Feb 2026)
• Other revenue in 2025 came from concessions (€254 million), rent and leases (€234 million), parking (€182 million) and other sources (€203 million). (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 results document), Feb 2026)
• Under the charges set in 2024, night flights cost about 3 to 6 times as much as a daytime flight, depending on the aircraft type. (Royal Schiphol Group (charges 2025-2027), Oct 2024)
• The competition regulator ACM approved the charges Schiphol introduced on 1 April 2025, finding the increase not unreasonable. (Royal Schiphol Group (ACM approval), Jun 2025)
• Schiphol's half-year report says its airport charges from 1 April 2026 were in line with the previous year's, and that from 27 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 airlines get a temporary discount of over 10% on daytime flights only. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results document), Jul 2026)
• The discount, a response to the war in the Middle East and high kerosene prices, cut Schiphol's results by €37 million in the first half of 2026. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• Airport charges brought in €899 million in the first half of 2026, up 7.0% from €840 million, while passenger movements at the group's three airports rose 0.3% to 37,296 thousand. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results document), Jul 2026)
• On Prinsjesdag, 15 September 2026, the Dutch government decided to bring the air passenger tax on the longest flights into line with Germany's rate, and Schiphol and the ministry plan a €90 million fund for sustainable aviation fuel in 2027 to 2029. (Royal Schiphol Group (Prinsjesdag 2026), Sep 2026)

The 41.4% is the rise in Schiphol's charge levels, not in revenue per passenger. Charge revenue covers three airports. The 2026 position is as stated in Schiphol's half-year report of July 2026. The tax and fuel fund figures are Schiphol's summary of government plans; the fund needs European Commission approval.

How long are security queues at Schiphol?

Most passengers get through security at Schiphol within ten minutes, but 2026 has brought bad days. A switch to fewer security companies in May caused long queues, and staff held short strikes in August.

• In 2024, 91% of travellers passed through security within ten minutes. (Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results), Feb 2025)
• 4.5 million bags of departing travellers were handled in July and August 2025, 7% more than a year earlier. (Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2025), Sep 2025)
• Schiphol's new security organisation started in May 2026 with three security companies instead of five, and a new handling model cuts baggage and aircraft handling firms from six to three. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results), Jul 2026)
• On the new organisation's first day in May 2026, staff shortages and IT problems caused longer waits; around 1,400 flights operated and about 68,000 passengers departed. (Royal Schiphol Group (security, May 2026), May 2026)
• Security staff held repeated 15-minute work stoppages on 25 and 26 August 2026, and Schiphol, the security companies and the CNV and FNV unions agreed better working conditions on 16 September. (Royal Schiphol Group (security agreement), Sep 2026)
• Security cost Royal Schiphol Group €301 million in 2025, against €303 million in 2024. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 results document), Feb 2026)
• It cost €152 million in the first half of 2026, against €150 million a year earlier. (Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results document), Jul 2026)
• Passengers gave Schiphol an average satisfaction score of 3.84 out of 5 in 2025, its highest in ten years outside the pandemic. (Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results), Feb 2026)

The 2024 security figure covers all travellers, while the 2025 figure covers the busiest days only, so the two are not a trend. All security and satisfaction figures are Schiphol's own measurements.

How many passengers does KLM carry?

KLM, the Dutch flag carrier, has its hub at Schiphol. It grew in 2025, but its profit margin is thin and it named Schiphol's higher charges as a cost.

• Medium-haul 24.46m
• Long-haul 10.0m

• KLM's passenger network carried 34.46 million passengers in 2025, up 4.4%: 10.0 million on long-haul flights and 24.46 million on medium-haul, with planes 88.0% full. (Air France-KLM (2025 results), Feb 2026)
• KLM Group's revenue was €13,205 million in 2025 and its operating result €416 million, a margin of 3.2%. (Air France-KLM (2025 results), Feb 2026)
• KLM's Back on Track programme added at least €450 million in 2025, and it cut more than its target of 250 office jobs. (Air France-KLM (2025 results), Feb 2026)
• Air France-KLM named the Schiphol tariff increase and weaker low-yield demand, which hit KLM as a connecting carrier, as headwinds in 2025. (Air France-KLM (2025 results), Feb 2026)
• The whole Air France-KLM group carried 102.8 million passengers in 2025, up 5.0%. (Air France-KLM (2025 results), Feb 2026)

Air France-KLM counts passengers carried across KLM's whole network, each trip once. An airport counts every arrival and departure, so these figures are not comparable with Schiphol's passenger counts. No primary source we could open gives KLM's share of Schiphol traffic, so none is shown.

How many people take the train to Schiphol?

Schiphol Airport is a large station on the Dutch rail network, but its NS traffic is still well below 2019. Most of its travellers come and go outside the rush hours.

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NS train passengers boarding or leaving a train at Schiphol Airport station on an average weekday, from NS annual report data.

Period	Value
2019	98,071
2024	74,382
2025	75,397

• A further 15,660 NS passengers changed trains at Schiphol Airport station each weekday in 2025; in 2024 the figures were 74,382 boarding or leaving and 15,726 changing, and in 2019 98,071 and 18,643. (NS (annual report 2025), 2026)
• 53% of NS travellers at Schiphol Airport station reached it by bus, tram or metro and 30% on foot, and 71% walked from the station to where they were going. (NS (annual report 2025), 2026)
• 7% of NS trips from Schiphol Airport station fell in the morning rush hour, 07:00 to 09:00, 17% in the evening rush and 76% off-peak. (NS (annual report 2025), 2026)

NS figures cover NS trains only, on an average weekday, and NS refines its method each year, so years are not fully comparable. The shares describe train travellers at the station, not all air passengers.

Methodology and sources

Figures come from Royal Schiphol Group's results and traffic releases, CBS (Statistics Netherlands), Eurostat, ACI World, ACI EUROPE, EUROCONTROL, the Dutch government's official publications, Air France-KLM and NS. Each figure links to the body that produced it, with the date. Schiphol's rounded counts, CBS's and Eurostat's exact counts and ACI's rankings are each named and not merged, and the three counts of 2025 flights are kept apart. Airline passengers carried are not compared with airport passenger counts. Where we added up monthly figures, the text says so and gives them as approximate. Forecasts and proposals are labelled with who made them and when, and the flight cap timeline follows the decrees and ministerial letters. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.

• ACI EUROPE (2025 traffic report) · Feb 2026
• ACI World (2025 rankings) · Jul 2026
• Air France-KLM (2025 results) · Feb 2026
• CBS (aviation monthly figures) · Sep 2026
• Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure (letter, 1 Apr 2026) · Apr 2026
• Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure (letter, 20 Apr 2026) · Apr 2026
• EUROCONTROL (Performance Review Report 2025) · Mar 2026
• Eurostat (passengers by airport) · Nov 2026
• Government of the Netherlands (Staatsblad 2025, 119) · May 2025
• NS (annual report 2025) · 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (2019 annual results) · Feb 2020
• Royal Schiphol Group (2024 annual results) · Feb 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (2024 capacity) · Dec 2023
• Royal Schiphol Group (2025 annual results) · Feb 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (2025 results document) · Feb 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (2025 traffic release) · Jan 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (2027 operating forecast) · Nov 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (ACM approval) · Jun 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (Balanced Approach evaluation) · Aug 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (bond issue) · Mar 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (charges 2025-2027) · Oct 2024
• Royal Schiphol Group (coalition agreement response) · Feb 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (curfew modelling) · Jun 2023
• Royal Schiphol Group (eight-point plan) · Apr 2023
• Royal Schiphol Group (February 2025 traffic) · Mar 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2024 results) · Aug 2024
• Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results document) · Jul 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (H1 2026 results) · Jul 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (January 2025 traffic) · Feb 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (July 2025 traffic) · Aug 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (June 2025 traffic) · Jul 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (March 2025 traffic) · Apr 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (May 2025 traffic) · Jun 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (May 2026 forecast) · Apr 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (new traffic decree) · Nov 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (November 2025 traffic) · Dec 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (October 2025 traffic) · Nov 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (Preliminary Scheme statement) · Feb 2023
• Royal Schiphol Group (Prinsjesdag 2026) · Sep 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (security agreement) · Sep 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (security, May 2026) · May 2026
• Royal Schiphol Group (September 2025 traffic) · Oct 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2024 capacity) · Sep 2023
• Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2025) · Sep 2025
• Royal Schiphol Group (summer 2026 forecast) · Jul 2026