Between January and May 2023, a 50% year-on-year increase in passenger traffic was recorded for the Aegean Sea, which carried more than 5 million passengers in total. This figure is 2% higher than the corresponding period before the start of the pandemic, when the carrier transported 4.9 million people.

In addition, foreign passenger traffic for the Aegean is shown, up 65% compared to 2022 and 12% compared to 2019, to and from Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Airport. Over the same period, foreign passenger traffic from Thessaloniki Macedonia Airport was noted as particularly high, reaching 72% compared to the previous year and 30% compared to 2019. This increase was due to the general expansion of Aegean’s operations with new routes. abroad – this year it is working with the largest international network of destinations in its history – as well as increasing the frequency of flights from an early stage on existing routes such as Italy, Spain, Germany, Scandinavia, Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

This summer season, which started earlier than any other year, saw direct flights from Athens to Bristol, Birmingham, Riga and Lille, direct flights from Thessaloniki to Barcelona and Cologne, as well as direct flights from Chania, Ioannina, Mykonos. Rhodes and Kalamata in Tel Aviv. In the coming days, nine new routes from / to Athens (Ljubljana, Dammam, Newcastle, Seville, Olbia, Kuwait, Pisa, Palma de Mallorca and Split), three new routes from / to Thessaloniki (Venice, Yerevan and Tbilisi) are expected to open , while five routes from/to Heraklion (Vienna, Marseille, Larnaca, Tirana and Belgrade) and the route connecting Rhodes and Belgrade are back on schedule after the winter break.

In 2023, Aegean will offer a total of 18 million seats, of which 11 million will be international, up 2 million more than in 2022 and 800,000 more than in 2019. The company will operate to 165 destinations in 46 countries with 272 direct flights. routes from a total of ten bases in Greece and abroad, with a fleet of 76 aircraft, including the brand new Airbus A320 and A321 neo.