Finnish airports see higher passengers in Nov but lower than 2019

A total of 1,290,625 passengers flew through Finnish airports in November 2022, according to Statistics Finland.

The number of passengers was 50 per cent higher than in the previous year, but only 67 per cent of the level prior to the corona pandemic in November 2019.

In November 2022, a total of 1.1 million passengers flew through Helsinki Airport and altogether 228,394 passengers flew through other domestic airports. Helsinki Airport accounted for 82 per cent of all passengers at domestic airports.

The number of passengers at Helsinki Airport was 34 per cent lower and the combined number of passengers at other domestic airports 31 per cent lower than in November 2019.

Ivalo, Kittilä, Kuusamo and Rovaniemi airports are exceptions to this, as the number of passengers there exceeded the level of 2019 in November.

Compared to November 2021, the number of passengers at both Helsinki Airport and other domestic airports combined was one half (50%) higher.

The exceptionally high relative growth in the number of passengers compared to last year is caused by the collapse of air traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic starting from spring 2020.

The year 2019 is used in the statistics as the comparison year to describe the number of air passengers before the pandemic.

Seventy-six per cent of the air passengers travelled on international flights and 24 per cent on domestic flights.

The share of passengers on international flights was 85 per cent at Helsinki Airport and 31 per cent in total at other domestic airports.

Air freight and mail transport totalled 13,460 tonnes in November 2022. In all, 99.6 per cent of the tonnes were transported through Helsinki Airport and 99 per cent in traffic between Finland and foreign countries. Altogether 7,613 tonnes (57%) of the transported volume of goods were outgoing and 5,846 tonnes (43%) were incoming.