The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of aviation and air traffic in European Union and to present the relation between the number of passengers of counties on the Old Continent, which will make it possible to observe the relationship and identify the causes of changes. The average growth rate is also presented in this contribution. Such an analysis may be helpful in preparing airports for increasing traffic in the future. A statistical analysis of selected aspects may enable to reveal the situation related to air transport in Europe and the predictions might visualise expectations in the following years. In this paper, the methods of statistical analysis and interpretations of studies presented in a graphical way, were used. The aim of the research was to understand the dependences between countries, trends of annual growth as well as relations between number of passengers with the gross domestic product. It was observed that the number of travelled people is growing as a function of time and it is dependent with the gross domestic product. The analyzed lands have been divided into five group according the average number of passengers. Similar tendencies have been observed in most of the cases.