Traffic at airports: At 90.6% of the first half of 2019, passenger traffic January – June

Passenger arrivals at the country’s airports from abroad were marginally exceeded this year compared to June 2019while at semester level it has been covered 90.6% from the record year at Greek airports.

Specifically, from its provisional statistics High Commissioner for the passenger traffic of the airports for the month of June 2022, the following results:

The total number of trafficked passengers amounted to 8,398,777marking an increase of (+)167.6% compared to the corresponding period of 2021 where 3,138,908 passengers had been transported.

Flights at all airports in the country amounted to 67,428of which 22,212 were domestic and 45,216 foreign, recording an increase (+) of 64%, compared to the corresponding period of June 2021 where 41,107 flights had taken place.

In particular, for the arrivals of foreign flight passengers in June 2022 we had an increase of (+)190.5% corresponding to 3,480,812 passengers, compared to the corresponding month of 2021 when the arrivals from abroad were 1,198,398 passengers.

Comparing the June 2022 provisional statistics with the corresponding month of 2019 when flights were 66,827, this year there was an increase of (+)0.9% in aircraft traffic. In total passenger traffic (departures and arrivals traffic) which was 8,427,908 in 2019, for the same period of time in 2022, which was 8,398,777, a decrease of (-) 0.3% is observed. With regard specifically to foreign flight passenger arrivals, in 2019 it was 3,477,906, for the same considered period of 2022, it was 3,480,812, an increase of (+)0.1%.

Semester details

Accordingly, according to the same figures of the CAA for the passenger traffic of the airports, in the January/June semester of 2022, the following results:

The total number of transported passengers reached 22,407,879, showing an increase of (+)269.1% compared to the corresponding period of 2021 where 6,071,559 passengers had been transported.

As for the flights at the country’s airports, they amounted to 207,289, of which 90,564 were domestic and 116,725 foreign, recording an increase of (+)95.7%, compared to the corresponding period of 2021, where 105,930 flights had taken place.

Finally, comparing the statistics with the January/June half of 2019 when flights were 214,489, the first half of this year saw a (-)3.4% drop in aircraft traffic. In the total passenger traffic which was 24,726,456 in the January/June half of 2019, for the same considered period of 2022 there was a drop of (-)9.4%.

According to the above figures, this year’s total passenger traffic in the first half of 2022 has reached 90.6% of the passenger traffic in the first half of 2019.

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