Increasingly, passengers from Eindhoven Airport travel to visit family or friends. In 2024, approximately one in three traveled for this reason, which amounts to over 2.2 million passengers. Vacation or city trips and work are also frequently mentioned reasons for travel. Eindhoven Airport examined the travel motives of departing passengers to three popular destinations. What turns out? The 'typical holiday flight' does not exist.

Eindhoven Airport is the second largest airport in the Netherlands. In 2024, the airport welcomed nearly 6.8 million passengers (departing and arriving combined). They traveled between Eindhoven and one of the eighty (mostly European) destinations.

Insights from Travelers Monitor

Passengers from Eindhoven Airport have various reasons for traveling. This is evident from the Travelers Monitor 2024, a survey of over 4,100 departing passengers from Eindhoven Airport. Just like in 2023, the majority (54 percent) in 2024 also cited vacation/city trip as their travel motive: 32 percent mentioned visiting family or friends as the reason for their trip, and 13 percent work. The distribution of various travel motives can differ per destination.

Popular destinations (from the top five) of Eindhoven Airport are Malaga, London, and Budapest. In 2024, over 355,000 travelers flew between Eindhoven Airport and Malaga, over 342,000 passengers flew between Eindhoven and London, and another 255,000 travelers flew between Eindhoven and Budapest.

Popular destinations and travel motives

Malaga has traditionally been a popular destination for a vacation or city trip. About seven out of ten passengers flew to Malaga for this reason. Remarkably, nearly a quarter of the passengers went to the Andalusian city to visit family or friends. The remaining passengers traveled to Malaga for work.

Looking at people traveling to London, the travel motive shifts slightly more towards visiting family or friends. Half of the travelers to the English capital flew for a vacation or city trip. A third of the passengers to London flew to visit family or friends. Seventeen percent cited work as the reason for their trip to London.

For travelers who bought a ticket to the capital of Hungary, the motives are again differently distributed. In Budapest, visiting family or friends is the most common travel motive; four out of ten passengers booked a flight to Budapest for this reason. Nearly a quarter travel for work and over a third for vacation or city trip.

Typical holiday flight does not exist

The figures show that departing passengers to popular destinations each have their own travel motive. The typical holiday flight does not exist, as tickets to so-called (classic) holiday destinations are also purchased by passengers with other travel motives. It is noteworthy that departing passengers increasingly cite visiting family or friends as their travel motive.

Eindhoven Airport has about eighty destinations to which passengers travel for various reasons. From Morocco to Norway, to Portugal and Poland.