Cyprus Airports register record March travellers

Tourism is on the road to a full recovery in 2023 after Cyprus airports recorded record passenger traffic for March. Larnaka and Pafos airports had 5.8% more passengers in March than in the record year of 2019, with 597,000 passengers passing through the airports last month.

The increase in the overall traffic was due to passengers travelling through Pafos airport, as figures increased by 24.2% compared to 2022 and 26.6% compared to 2019.

Some 392,273 passengers travelled through the larger Larnaka airport, marking a 71% increase from 2022 and a 2.6% decrease compared to 2019.

The best-performing March on record follows a record number of passengers recorded in February. For February, 454,000 passengers passed through the airports, an increase of 10% compared to the same month in pre-COVID 2019. 

Compared to February 2019, 11 new destinations were introduced, such as Paris, Prague, Rome, and Marseilles, replacing the loss of the markets of Russia and Ukraine due to the war.