Highest ever single month traffic recorded at BTS this July
The highest number of passengers was handled in the month of July at Bratislava airport, another record-breaking result posted by BTS this year.
“M. R. Štefánik Airport in Bratislava processed 349,720 passengers in July of this year (both arrivals and departures), which was the highest number of passengers handled in a single month since the beginning of the airport’s operation in 1951”, airport general director Jozef Pojedinec told a news conference on August 15.
The 300-thousand passengers level was only exceeded twice in airport´s history – in July 2008 (304 146 passengers) and July 2017 (304 388), which means the current new monthly record achieved in July 2018 surpassed the previous ones by more than 45-thousand passengers.
Year 2018 looks good for BTS in terms of passenger traffic. The total of 1 251 050 passengers were handled in the first seven months of the year, an increase of 20 percent compared to the same period last year. The growth is driven by new scheduled routes added in 2018, higher capacity allocated on existing routes, but most importantly, it is the strongest holiday season in the airport´s history. More than 2-thousand summer charters will be handled this season, an increase of 37% compared to last year.
Among the busiest routes were those to London, Dublin, Moscow, Milan, Skopje and Kiev. Flights to Antalya (Turkey), Hurghada (Egypt), Thessaloniki, Crete and Rhodes (Greece) were the most in demand during the holiday season.
Pojedinec predicts that the airport will show record figures of processed passengers for the whole year, too.
“If nothing extraordinary concerning security happens in the world, the 2018 results might break the previous all-time highs,” the airport CEO opined. “We expect the number of passengers at about 2,240,000.”
Source: BTS, Slovak Spectator via spectator.sme.sk