Athens Airport is among the European capital airports that recorded double-digit passenger traffic growth in April 2018.
According to April’s data of ACI Europe, the top airport in passenger traffic rise is Tallinn (+ 32.4% ) followed by Bratislava (26.9%), Ljubljana (+ 19.4%), Riga (+ 16.3%), Vilnius (+ 15.3%), Warsaw (14.8 %), Athens (+ 13.7%), Budapest (+ 13.6%), Malta (+ 11.4%), Helsinki (+ 11.9%) and Luxembourg (+11,7%).
Two Greek regional airports were also among the top-5 within the EU in April regarding passenger traffic.
Kefalonia (+ 78.6%) and Corfu (+ 38.2%) showed great momentum following Burgas (+ 135.9%), Poznan (+ 43.1%) and being followed by the airports of Ostend (+ 30.8%), Turku (+ 26.5%), Clermont-Ferrand (+ 28.6%), La Rochelle (+ 21.9%), Memmingerberg (+ 21.9%), Leeds (+ 20.4%), Wroclaw (+ 17.2%), Genoa (+15.8%) and Paphos (+15.2%).
Overall, all European airports recorded an increase of 5% in passenger traffic. This increase is due to the extra traffic recorded by airports outside the EU with an average rise of 10.4% as well as a strong contribution from Turkish airports (+13.9%).
Other significant increases are recorded at Georgia airports (+ 30.5%) , Ukraine (+ 20.4%), Montenegro (+15.5%) and Albania (+ 11.5%) .
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