
Passenger traffic recorded at the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport of Athens increased by 19.8 percent in June 2023, compared with the same month in 2022, reaching 2.92 million.
More optimistically, passenger traffic was up 11.7 percent compared with the corresponding period in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, with domestic and international traffic exceeding 2022 levels by 16.9 percent and 21.2 percent, respectively.
Compared to 2019, domestic and international passenger traffic was up by 16.3 percent and 9.7 percent, respectively. In the first six months of 2023, passenger traffic reached 12.07 million, up 34.5 percent from 2022 and 7.2 percent from 2019, respectively.
Domestic and international traffic was up 26.5 percent and 38.5 percent, respectively, in the January-June 2023 period, compared with 2022 and up by 9.8 percent and 6.0 percent, compared with 2019.
The number of flights in the six-month period totaled 105,607, up 15.5 percent from 2022 and 4.6 percent from 2019.
Domestic and international flights were up 9.1 percent and 21.1 percent, compared with 2022, and up 8.2 percent and 2.0 percent compared with the same period in 2019.


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