North Rhine-Westphalia's airports in Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Weeze, Münster/Osnabrück and Paderborn/Lippstadt are once again recording significantly more passengers, but overall they are far from the pre-crisis level.

In July 2022, 1,9 million passengers departed from the six main airports in NRW. As reported by Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia as the Statistical Office based on preliminary results, that was 596.700 or 47,0 percent more passengers than a year earlier (July 2021: 1,3 million), but around 531.600 (−22,2 percent ) less than before the start of the corona pandemic (July 2019: 2,4 million). In July of this year, 20,1 percent of all commercial passengers in Germany departed from one of the major airports in North Rhine-Westphalia.

1,8 million of the passengers departing from North Rhine-Westphalia's main airports flew abroad in July 2022 - that was 251.300 fewer than in July 2019. The number of passengers on domestic flights was 81.000, 16.600 more than in July 2021 but 280.300 fewer the result of July 2019.