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Athens International Airport: Passenger traffic development 2021

AIR NEWS REPORTS

The airport’s passenger traffic continued during August 2021 to be substantially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and its impact on air travel, with the airport’s passenger traffic being below the respective August 2019 levels by 30.6%.

This outcome points to a gradual improvement compared to the previous months, as the lifting of movement restrictions since mid-May 2021 and the peak summer holiday period, support a progressive recovery.

The improvement was more obvious in the domestic market, where traffic was below the respective 2019 levels by 19.4%, while international demand also showed recovery signs, with a 35.4% decline vs the corresponding 2019 traffic.

Overall, during the period January through August 2021, the airport’s passenger traffic totalled 6.6 million, approximately, exceeding the respective 2020 levels by 10.6%, but lagging behind compared to 2019 by 61.6%, as a result of the sharp traffic drop since March 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic.

Analytically, domestic passengers exceeded the 2020 levels by 18.9% and international passengers by 5.7%, while both were below the same period 2019 by 50.3% and 66.6%, respectively.

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