The fastest climbing airports were Athens (21.8%) and Brussels (15.6%).


Lisbon handled 18,159,000 passengers last year, just over 2 million on domestic flights, more than 11 million on European flights and almost 5 million flying outside of Europe.


The biggest airport in Europe is still Heathrow, (73,371,000 passengers), followed by Charles de Gaulle (63,654,000), Frankfurt (59,414,000) and Schiphol (54,957,00).