Outbound flights from Africa to Europe emerged because the continent’s largest journey hall in December 2025, accounting for the best share of worldwide seat capability.
This information was obtained from the OAG Africa Aviation Market, which exhibits Europe as the highest vacation spot for African travellers, far forward of different areas.
Airways operated about 9.62 million seats on Africa–Europe routes, an 8.7% improve from 8.85 million in December 2024.
In response to OAG’s December 2025 information, Europe continued to dominate Africa’s worldwide air journey. The rise of 769,918 seats year-on-year confirms sturdy and sustained demand between the continent and Europe.
Intra-African journey remained the second-largest market. Seat capability on routes inside Africa rose from 3.99 million in December 2024 to 4.11 million in December 2025, marking a 2.8% improve.
The Center East adopted, with airways working 4.45 million seats, up 8.2% from 4.11 million in December 2024. The area continues to function a significant transit and vacation spot hub for African travellers, particularly by way of Gulf airports like Dubai, Doha, and Abu Dhabi.
“Capability to Europe stays the biggest worldwide vacation spot area with 9.6 million seats, 769,900 extra seats vs December 2024.
“Capability to the Center East elevated by 338,400 seats in comparison with final 12 months,” the report learn partially.
Asia-Pacific routes recorded 688,289 seats in December 2025, up 13.2% from 607,991 in December 2024, exhibiting notable progress although the area accounts for a smaller share of outbound visitors.
The Americas noticed capability rise from 428,225 seats in December 2024 to 493,014 seats in December 2025, a 15.1% improve, reflecting a rising however nonetheless restricted marketplace for African travellers.
The dominance of Europe in African air journey is mirrored in Nigeria’s outbound patterns.
In response to the newest out there IATA 2023 information, European cities appeared two instances within the prime 10 locations for Nigerians, collectively accounting for roughly 481,100 passengers, the best amongst all areas. This consists of London with 421,300 passengers and Manchester with 59,800 passengers.
Inside Africa, Accra, Johannesburg, and Cairo carried about 204,900 passengers in whole, exhibiting that regional journey stays vital however smaller than Europe.
Nigerian outbound flights represented 0.1% of world worldwide visitors and a pair of.9% of regional visitors, with cumulative progress over the past decade at -7.2%.
