According to Statistics Finland, altogether 1,475,732 passengers flew through Finnish airports in September 2022. The number of passengers has remained at around 1.5 million since June. The number was 2.5-fold compared to one year earlier, but still only 65 per cent of the number of passengers in September 2019.
Number of passengers on domestic flights was 20 per cent higher than in the previous month
In September 2022, a total of 1.3 million passengers flew through Helsinki Airport and altogether 188,270 passengers flew through other domestic airports. Helsinki Airport accounted for 87 per cent of all passengers at domestic airports.
The number of passengers at Helsinki Airport was 33 per cent lower and the combined number of passengers at other domestic airports was 44 per cent lower than in September 2019. Compared to September 2021, the number of passengers at both Helsinki Airport and other domestic airports was multiple times 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 in the spring of 2020. The year 2019 is used in the statistics as the comparison year to describe the number of air passengers before the pandemic.
Eighty-one per cent of the air traffic passengers were on international flights and 19 per cent on domestic flights. The share of passengers on international flights was 89 per cent at Helsinki Airport and 26 per cent in total at other domestic airports.
Air freight and mail transport totalled 13,579 tonnes in September 2022. In all, 99.7 per cent of the tonnes were transported through Helsinki-Vantaa Airport and 99 per cent in traffic between Finland and foreign countries. Altogether 7,392 tonnes (54%) of the transported volume of goods were outgoing and 6,187 tonnes (46%) were incoming.
