5 Passengers

Air passengers: scheduled and charter traffic

Passengers 

T5.1

1990 2000 2010
Total airports 19 944 463 34 426 801 39 009 046
Zurich 12 278 088 22 450 494 22 854 358
Geneva 5 488 703 7 677 763 11 748 972
Basel-Mulhouse 2 1 776 784 3 699 194 4 087 931
Bern-Belp  88 584 205 314 85 981
Lugano-Agno  310 240 286 507 159 497
Sion  2 064 8 760 3 912
St.Gallen-Altenrhein   0 98 769 68 395
2019 2021 2022
Total airports 58 561 919 19 667 667 43 570 768
Zurich 31 478 748 10 189 371 22 512 400
Geneva 17 826 513 5 830 770 13 958 454
Basel-Mulhouse 2 9 068 206 3 610 270 7 034 591
Bern-Belp 22 233  11 236  35 230
Lugano-Agno 56 201   647   588
Sion 2 381   903  4 180
St.Gallen-Altenrhein 107 637  24 470  25 325

1 local and transfer passengers
2 Swiss and French traffic

Source: FSO, FOCA – Aviation, scheduled and charter traffic (AVIA_LC)

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Air passengers by continent of final destination, 2022

Departing local passengers in scheduled and charter traffic

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Europe Africa Asia Oceania
Total airports 15 142 432  770 832 1 262 433  70 207
Zurich  5 968 614   309 540   834 462   61 014
Geneva  5 738 890   364 897   407 463   9 193
Basel-Mulhouse 1  3 401 950   96 388   20 508    0
Bern-Belp   17 744    0    0    0
Lugano-Agno    298    0    0    0
Sion   2 107    0    0    0
St.Gallen-Altenrhein   12 829   7    0    0
North ­America Central America South ­America Total all continents
Total airports 1 055 701  137 892  213 087 18 652 584
Zurich   749 249   106 278   158 690  8 187 847
Geneva   302 972   31 614   54 397  6 909 426
Basel-Mulhouse 1   3 480    0    0  3 522 326
Bern-Belp    0    0    0   17 744
Lugano-Agno    0    0    0    298
Sion    0    0    0   2 107
St.Gallen-Altenrhein    0    0    0   12 836

1 Swiss and French traffic

Source: FSO, FOCA – Aviation, scheduled and charter traffic (AVIA_LC)

© FSO 2023

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Transport performance by airport

Incoming and outgoing scheduled and charter traffic

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Scheduled traffic:
Passenger-km performed,
in millions
Charter traffic:
Passenger-km performed,
in millions
2019 2021 2022 2019 2021 2022
Total 111 475  32 311  78 980 940   437   722
Zurich 79 743  20 970  53 476 379   127   237
Geneva 22 316  7 259  17 778 125   7   41
Basel-Mulhouse 1 9 335  4 059  7 668 420   292   433
Bern-Belp 7   4   44 15   10   8
Lugano-Agno 5   0   0 0   0   0
Sion 1   0   0 1   0   3
St.Gallen-Altenrhein 68   19   13 0   0   0

1 Swiss and French traffic

Source: FSO, FOCA – Civil aviation statistics (AVIA_ZL)

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Transport performance and seat load factor
by continent

Incoming and outgoing scheduled and charter traffic

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Passenger-km performed,
in millions
Seat load factor
2019 2021 2022 2019 2021 2022
Total 112 415  32 748  79 701 81% 59% 78%
Europe 45 231  18 772  36 852 81% 69% 79%
Africa 6 185  2 054  4 877 77% 58% 77%
Asia 32 648  4 653  16 876 78% 37% 75%
Oceania 1 0   0   0 * * *
North America 23 215  5 123  17 428 83% 55% 78%
Central America 1 877   788  1 400 89% 73% 86%
South America 3 259  1 358  2 267 89% 63% 95%

1 In 2019, 2021 and in 2022 no direct flights from/to Switzerland
* not indicated because data was not applicable

Source: FSO, FOCA – Civil aviation statistics (AVIA_ZL)

© FSO 2023