Data Snapshot #62 - The impact of the EU's digital Entry-Exit System (EES)
This data snapshot analyses the impact of the EU's digital Entry-Exit System (EES) for registering non-EU visitors on short stays into the Schengen area.
Data Snapshots
Short analyses of European aviation. Each one has its article, charts and, where published, the data behind it to download or query.
Data Snapshot #61 - Which European countries experience the biggest summer traffic surge?
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot provides insights on the seasonal traffic patterns across Europe in 2025.
Data Snapshot #60 - What 2025 data reveal about the average flight in Europe
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot examines the average flight in the EUROCONTROL area, incorporating 2025 data.
Data Snapshot #59 - First wave flights show improved year-on-year all-causes departure delays
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot shows that reducing delays in first wave flights improves overall network performance, with all-cause departure delays in first wave flights decreasing by 0.9 minutes per flight in 2025 compared to 2024.
Data Snapshot #58 - Which year did the 40 busiest European airports in 2025 reach their historic peak day?
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot evaluates in which year the 40 busiest European airports in 2025 reached their historic peak day.
Data Snapshot #57 - 2025 European aviation in numbers
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot summarises the main figures of European aviation in 2025.
Data Snapshot #56 - From business peaks to leisure balance: Shifting weekday flight patterns
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on shifting weekday flight patterns.
Data Snapshot #55 - Highest-ever daily movements across the European aviation network, by country
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot analyses the highest-ever daily movements across the European aviation network, by country.
Data Snapshot #54 - The average flight in the EUROCONTROL area
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot delves into the average flight in the EUROCONTROL area and new aviation trends.
Data Snapshot #53 - Charting the growth in market share of a new generation of narrow and wide-bodies
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on the market share growth of a new generation of narrow- and wide-body aircraft.
Data Snapshot #52 - Which FIRs (Flight Information Regions) see the most overflights, and why?
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot examines how overflights vary across the network.
Data Snapshot #51 - Traffic evolution in Q1 2025: Traffic continues to grow, but growth is not uniform
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot delves into the traffic evolution in Q1 2025 in all ACCs in the EUROCONTROL area, highlighting the differences between southern and central/northern Europe.
Data Snapshot #50 - Did you know... how many aircraft were in the air in 2024?
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot analyses the total number of aircraft in the air for any 15-minute interval in 2024.
Data Snapshot #49 - Did you know... which were the busiest worldwide city pairs in 2024?
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot examines the busiest city pairs in 2024.
Data Snapshot #48 - How far can you fly from your country
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot explores the longest flights that can be taken from Europe.
Data Snapshot #47 - ATFM slot tolerance windows
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks into the need to adhere to ATFM slot tolerance windows.
Data Snapshot #46 - Further, higher, bigger...
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at the trends behind the metrics for the average flight in the EUROCONTROL area.
Data Snapshot #45 - Long term perspective of ANS performance
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot takes a long term view on ANS performance.
Data Snapshot #44 - Why is your flight delayed?
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot delves into the causes of flight delays.
Data Snapshot #43 - Centre of gravity of European aviation
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot delves into the shifting of the centre of gravity of European aviation towards south and east.
Data Snapshot #42 - Growth of new generation of narrow bodies
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot delves into the growth of the new generation of narrow bodies, in particular the A320neo and B737MAX families.
Data Snapshot #41 - Comparing airline flight and seat recovery
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot shows that the recovery of airline activity from COVID-19 can depend greatly on whether flights or seats are considered, which is linked to fleet evolution.
Data Snapshot #40 - Taxi times at selected European airports
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot takes a look at the times aircraft spend taxiing at airports.
Data Snapshot #39 - Ransomware groups targeting aviation's supply chains
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at ransomware groups targeting aviation's supply chain.
Data Snapshot #38 - Path to recovery for intra-European and intercontinental flights
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at the path to recovery for intra-European and intercontinental flights.
Data Snapshot #37 - Aviation connectivity across Europe
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot takes a look at three European capitals to analyse how aviation connectivity varies across the continent.
Data Snapshot #36 - On the road to recovery from COVID-19
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot analyses Europe's recovery from COVID-19 and looks at what flights are still missing compared to 2019 traffic levels.
Data Snapshot #35 - Moving towards higher levels of transparency for measuring performance with Open Data
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot analyses the coverage of open air transport data within Europe.
Data Snapshot #34 - The rise of Low Cost Carriers in Europe
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot highlights the emergence and growth of Low Cost Carriers (LCC) in Europe, which now make up 32.5% of flights in 2022.
Data Snapshot #33 - Comparing On-Time Performance in the United States and Europe
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot compares On-Time Performance in the United States and Europe.
Data Snapshot #32 - Environmental improvements through continuous descent operations (CDOs)
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot shows how continuous descent operations (CDOs) can improve vertical flight efficiency, reducing CO2 emissions as well as noise levels near airports.
Data Snapshot #31 - The new regional market segment
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on aviation's regional market segment.
Data Snapshot #30 - Daily utilisation of aircraft by type
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on the daily utilisation of aircraft by type, which is getting back to pre-COVID level.
Data Snapshot #29 - Changes in distance on flights to Asia following the invasion of Ukraine
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot reports on the changes in flight patterns on long-haul flights to Asia following the invasion of Ukraine.
Data Snapshot #28 - Re-routings around Ukraine
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot reports on how re-routing around Ukraine is disrupting traffic flows across a wide area.
Data Snapshot #27 - Europe now has 8 airline groups in the global Top 40
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot reports on how Europe now has 8 airline groups in the global Top 40.
Data Snapshot #26 - All cargo flights complementing passenger flights
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on how all-cargo flights complement passenger flights.
Data Snapshot #25 - Variation of aviation markets in States
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on how second-largest airports very rarely exceed 20% share of flights, but provide a window onto a country's aviation market.
Data Snapshot #24 - COVID-19's impact on the passenger fleet
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on COVID-19's impact on the reversal of a long-running trend and on the renewal of the passenger fleet.
Data Snapshot #23 - Flight recovery with fewer choices for passengers in 2021
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on flights recovering to 75% of 2019 levels, but for passengers, the choice of flights to their destination remains low.
Data Snapshot #22 - Lower summer taxi-out times in 2021
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on the welcome benefits of lower taxi-out times this summer and the challenge to keep them low.
Data Snapshot #21 - Aircraft flying higher, more efficiently and sustainably
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on aircraft flying higher, creating extra airspace capacity and burning less fuel, saving 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
Data Snapshot #20 - Recovering flights and increasing delays in 2021
The 20th EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on flights recovering this summer, alongside delays.
Data Snapshot #19 - Europe's business aviation recovery from COVID-19
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on the continued recovery of Europe's business aviation sector from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data Snapshot #18 - 56% lower emissions from 53% fewer flights
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on CO2 emissions from flights so far in 2021 being 56% lower than in 2019, while flights are down by 53%.
Data Snapshot #17 - Aircraft weight variations during COVID-19
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at the fluctuation in flights of heavy aircraft due to COVID-19 and it's impact on air traffic control (ATC) revenue.
Data Snapshot #16 - Varying state recovery profiles
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at the recovery profiles in summer 2021.
Data Snapshot #15 - Delay caused by checking the COVID-19 documentation of passengers
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at the delay caused by checking the COVID-19 documentation of passengers.
Data Snapshot #14 - Measuring horizontal flight efficiency
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at horizontal en-route flight efficiency - and why the shortest route is not necessarily the most fuel efficient one.
Data Snapshot #13 - Change in operational fleet mix (01-21 June 2021 vs 01-21 June 2019)
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at how airlines reduced the complexity of their aircraft fleet mix in the last two years and introduced more fuel-efficient aircraft types.
Data Snapshot #12 - Inactive Aircraft in Europe
EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at the level of inactive aircraft and how, across Europe, aircraft are being woken for the summer.
Data Snapshot #11 - Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) at European airports?
The eleventh EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot tackles the question - Can regulation and focused logistics unlock the availability of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) at European airports?.
Data Snapshot #10 - Surveillance Radar Overload
The tenth EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on the overload on the use of Surveillance Radar.
Data Snapshot #9 - 2020 - smaller aircraft, shorter flights and fluctuating weight
The ninth EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot focuses on the fact that the average flight in 2020 was 7.6% shorter than 2019, but the average flight weight fluctuated from month to month quite dramatically compared with the relatively steady levels in 2019.
Data Snapshot #8 - The costs of air traffic management in Europe
The eighth EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot is dedicated to how costs of air traffic management in Europe became disconnected from traffic around 2008.
Data Snapshot #7 - COVID-19's impact on Europe's long-haul network
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe's high-frequency long-haul network is cut by two-thirds.
Data Snapshot #6 - How has COVID-19 impacted the network?
Right now, most routes across the Network are lower frequency and mostly domestic - find out where the flows are in the latest Data Snapshot, which compares 02/2021 and pre-pandemic 02/2020. The new Data Snapshot compares the busy short and medium-haul routes right now, with this time last year, pre-COVID.
Data Snapshot #5 - All-cargo flights market share
A growing number of empty passenger aircraft are operating freight-only flights, finds our latest Data Snapshot, which looks at the growth of air cargo during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data Snapshot #4 - CO2 emissions by flight distance
The fourth EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot expands on the fact that half of CO2 emissions come from just 6% of flights: the long-haul ones.
Data Snapshot #3 - COVID-19 cuts to flights have interrupted Airbus's growing dominance of flights in Europe
The EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot reveals that COVID-19 has massively reduced the number of flights by Airbus aircraft across the network, reversing a decade-long trend.
Data Snapshot #2 - CO2 emissions from flights in 2020
CO2 emissions fell by 57% in the EUROCONTROL network area in 2020 - but, as our latest EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot 2020 shows, that breaks down into big variations across States.
Data Snapshot #1 - Airline schedules during 2020 were a weaker guide to flights than usual
In normal times the published airline schedules are a pretty good indicator of how many scheduled flights there will be. However, these are not normal times. One stark indicator of the volatility of COVID-related travel restrictions in the last 10 months is the fraction of scheduled flights which were actually operated, even in the week immediately after the schedule was published.