Liège Airport on track for Europe’s Top 3 Cargo Airports

Liège Airport posted outstanding results for 2025, with handled cargo volumes increasing by 14% compared to 2024, reaching 1,324,579 tonnes. This represents the strongest growth rate among the top 10 European air cargo airports. The trend is also upward for cargo aircraft movements, with 28,822 flights recorded in its core business (+6%).

Liège Airport, Europe’s 5th largest cargo airport, Belgium’s leading cargo airport, and ranked among the top cargo airports worldwide, is the only European airport that prioritizes full-cargo operations (#freightersfirst). It specializes in the transport of perishable goods, pharmaceutical products, express parcels, e-commerce shipments, medical and humanitarian supplies, as well as live animals.

In 2025, the total number of aircraft movements reached 36,979 (stable compared to 37,029 in 2024). Cargo flights continued to represent the largest share, with 28,822 movements — a 6% increase over 2024 (27,184 movements). The split between daytime flights (65.5%) and nighttime flights (34.5%) confirms the shift underway over the past four years (in 2020, night flights still accounted for 59%).

Liège Airport reached 1,324,579 tonnes handled (versus 1,162,935 tonnes in 2024), marking the second-best performance in the airport’s history. Over ten years, total tonnage has more than doubled.

The performance is very strong since volume growth over the past two years exceeds 30%. Our largest customer represents 13% of total volumes handled at the airport, the second accounts for 10%, and the third and fourth each represent 9%. This balanced distribution makes our airport resilient

New destinations

“The diversification of our airline portfolio continues, with 56 airline customers at Liège Airport at the end of 2025, compared with 40 at the end of 2023. The same applies to logistics companies, with even stronger growth: 62 operators in 2025 versus 37 in 2023. Our objective is to reach the European top three cargo airports and to strengthen our positioning as a provider of sustainable and multimodal logistics solutions. This strategy reinforces the airport’s economic hub, with several hundred direct and indirect jobs created over the past two years,” adds CEO Laurent Jossart.

Confirming the airport’s driving role in international logistics, several new destinations were added to the network: Bogotá, São Paulo, Mexico City, Chicago O’Hare, Oakland, Toronto Hamilton, Nanjing, Chongqing, Mumbai, Taipei, and Ostrava.