A little lower passenger traffic appeared this year in January, annually, Fraport Greecewho governs 14 largest regional airports in the country. According to the concession company, in the first month of this year, 14 regional airports served 60.6% more passengers (596,129 people) than in the corresponding month of 2022, but this figure remains 3.6% lower than in 2019. a slight deviation underlies experts’ estimates that this year the largest regional airports are expected to break the record of 2022, when passenger traffic was 3.4% higher than in 2019. And this is taking into account the fact that in the first months of 2022, passenger traffic was significantly lower compared to 2019.

The airports that contributed to the single-digit deviation in the total number of passengers in January this year compared to the corresponding month of 2019 are the airports of Kavala (-47%), Corfu (-39.2%) and Santorini (-23.3%)). . In single digits compared to the first month of 2019, there is a decrease in the number of passengers in “Macedonia”, which served 372,500 people (-4.2%), in Mytilene Airport, which had 22,800 thousand passengers (-2.9%), and in Aktion. airport (-2.6%).

Their number decreased by 3.6% compared to the corresponding month of 2019.

However, at the remaining eight airports out of a total of 14, passenger traffic increased in the first month of this year compared to January 2019. Skiathos Airport posted a record growth in passengers, with 56% more people transported, rising to just over 1,300. Zakynthos Airport (+34.7%) took the baton in terms of passenger traffic growth, followed by Mykonos (+18, 7%), Chania (+12.8%), Samos (+9.5%), Kos (+6.3%), Rhodes (+5.6%). %) and Kefalonia (+4.4%).

In terms of flight work, it was 7% lower in January 2023 compared to the same month in 2019 and amounted to 6,354 flights at 14 regional airports. Mykonos Airport showed the largest increase in activity with 29.7% more flights compared to 2019. In contrast, Kavala Airport recorded the biggest decline with 45% fewer flights. According to the European Aviation Safety Agency (Eurocontrol), during the current week until March 25, the number of flights to Greece will be up to 40% more than in 2022.