A total of 1.8 million passengers flew through Finnish airports in December 2023

Air traffic was lively in December especially at the airports of Lapland

In December, a total of 1.2 million passengers flew through Helsinki Airport and altogether 600,000 passengers flew through other domestic airports. Compared to December 2022, the total number of passengers was 5 per cent higher at Helsinki Airport and 12 per cent higher at other domestic airports.

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 82 per cent at Helsinki Airport and 62 per cent in total at other domestic airports.

The number of passengers at Helsinki Airport was 27 per cent lower and the combined number of passengers at other domestic airports one per cent higher than in December 2019. Among the domestic airports, the airports of Enontekiö, Kittilä, Kuusamo, Rovaniemi and Tampere-Pirkkala stood out, with the number of passengers exceeding the 2019 level in December 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 15,761 tonnes in December 2023. In all, 98 per cent of the tonnes were transported through Helsinki Airport and 99 per cent in traffic between Finland and foreign countries. Altogether 7 014 tonnes (44 %) of the transported volume of goods were incoming and 8 747 tonnes (56 %) were outgoing.