In total Week 33 saw 36,174 average daily flights, just 15 daily flights higher than Week 32, and with overall traffic back to 3.0% higher than 2025. Busy traffic continues to be reflected in new traffic records being set, with Week 33 seeing a further 12 network highs recorded.
Türkiye contributed six of these with new daily highs set by Istanbul area control centre (ACC), the Turkish Airlines Group, Pegasus and SunExpress, and by Istanbul and Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen airports; while three more came from Ireland, which set a new State record, along with Dublin ACC and Dublin airport, which both exceeded previous daily records. The three remaining new daily records were set by Athens and Yerevan ACCs, and the Wizz Air Group.
Other key Week 33 data:
- 74% arrival punctuality, up 1.3 percentage points (pp) vs W32, and 0.7pp better than 2025
- 3.10 minutes per flight ATFM delays, 10% lower than W32 and 3% below 2025 – split between en-route (2.42 mins) & airport (0.68 mins)
- 50,707 flights delayed by ATFM restrictions (7,244 flights a day and 20% of all flights)
- 300K+ minutes of en-route ATFM delays saved by CWBO, applied now to around 9K flights, and amounting to a global total this year of 2.6 million minutes saved.
Overall, the first 11 weeks of Summer 2026 vs Summer 2025 show:
- 2.3% more traffic
- 1.9pp improved arrival punctuality
- 19% fewer ATFM delays.
Strong delivery vis-à-vis Network Operations Plan (NOP) commitments by air navigation service providers (ANSPs) continues with en-route ATFM delay currently 19% lower for the summer to date vs 2025. Good delivery by ANSPs remains critical for the remainder of August, with continued traffic peaks of around 37,500 flights expected on Fridays.
The main network hot spots in the year to date (YTD) remain France, which has generated 32% of en-route delays (of which 11% attributed to Marseille, 8% to Reims and 6% to Brest ACCs), Spain YTD 17% (11% of which Barcelona ACC), and Greece YTD 12% (8% of which Athens ACC).