Record year in 2023 with passenger traffic rising at Greek airports

2023 is a record year for the airport’s passenger traffic performance despite devastating fires and deadly floods in the past two months.

As everything shows, based on the data so far as well as the forecasts of both the President of Athens International Airport, Mr. Richard Lambiris and the Managing Director of Fraport Greece, Mr. Alexander Zenil, 2023 is expected to be the best year for passenger traffic, going full steam ahead in standard.

For the eight months of 2023 at all airports of our country (Athens Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”, 24 airports managed by CAA, 14 regional airports managed by Fraport Greece), passenger traffic increased compared to the corresponding period of 2022 and 2019, exceeding 50 million passengers while September recorded Also high levels.

In particular, during the eight months of 2023 in Greece (January/August 2023), the total number of passengers traveling at airports (arrivals and departures of foreign and domestic passengers) was 50,152,145, compared to 43,788,675 in the corresponding period of 2022. and 44,895,202 passengers in 2019. From the above statistics, there is an increase in passenger traffic by +14.5% compared to 2022 and an increase of +11.7% compared to 2019.

“Eleftherios Venizelos” and Greece’s 14 Fraport airports broke the barrier of 40 million passengers in 8 months.

The “champions” in the increase are Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos Airport and the 14 airports operated by Fraport.

Based on data collected from the 15 major airports, passenger traffic in the first eight months of the year exceeded 40 million passengers. Specifically, Athens International Airport received 18,668,442 visitors from January to August, while 24,106,822 visitors “landed” at the 14 regional airports, for a total of 42,775,264 domestic and international visitors. International visitors alone amounted to 31,999,447 in the eight months – 12,796,657 at AIA and 19,202,790 at regional airports operated by Fraport, while in the hottest quarter of the year (June-July-August) there were 26.8 million passengers (9.5 million at AIA – and 17.3 million ) at regional airports).

A record year in 2023 for Athens International Airport

“If the good performance continues at the rate it has been, this year we will see a record year for Athens Airport, surpassing the historic performance of 2019,” said the AIA President, speaking at the 6th Infrastructure and Transport Conference – ITC. 2023 Rihardus Lamberis, even citing a series of facts confirming the positive path. For the year 2019, the international airport recorded 25.58 million passengers, while according to data until August of this year, it reached 18.7 million passengers, compared to 17.3 million for the same period in 2019.

As revealed by Mr. Lambiris, what is indicative of the increase is that “from the airport lounge, there are days when 102,000 passengers are transported daily, which is an impressive number relative to the data so far.”

America, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Israel, Cyprus, Canada, Spain, Austria and Germany are the “core” in the increase in passenger traffic at Athens International Airport. Indicative, in the first eight months of the year, compared to the corresponding period of 2019, the Austria market showed an increase of about 45% compared to 2019, Spain by 25%, France by 15%, and America by 15%. 63%, Israel 68%, and Canada 32%.

Fraport Greece – a record year for all 14 airports

2023 is expected to be a record year for Fraport Greece, which operates 14 Greek regional airports, according to Alexander Zinel, the company’s CEO. Speaking at the 6th Infrastructure and Transport Conference – ITC 2023, he said: “Our estimates for the whole of 2023 are 33 million passengers compared to 31.19 million last year.”

In the eight months from January to August, passenger traffic exceeded 24 million compared to 22 million in 2022, an increase of 8.5%. The increase in domestic traffic contributed to this increase, with 4.9 million passengers compared to 4.1 million passengers last year, an increase of 18.4%. Travelers (18.4%), as well as from abroad, with 19.2 million passengers compared to 18.1 last year, an increase of 6.2%. All destinations saw an increase compared to last year, in fact Thessaloniki recorded the largest increase of 20.8%. Kavala (up 18.9%), Mytilene (up 15.1%), Skiathos and Chania (up 11.4% and 11.2% respectively) airports also recorded an increase.

The eight months at the 14 regional airports also concluded with an increase of 10.9% compared to 2019, with Mytilene (0.6%), Kavala (5.6%) and Samos (0.6%) declining. On the contrary, the best performance was recorded by Aktio (29.2%), Skiathos (25.7%), Chania (21%) and Corfu (22.3%).

B. Kochumba