Cyprus Airports' passenger traffic jumps 23%

Cyprus airports in May came close to meeting pre-pandemic passenger traffic registered in the record-benchmark year of 2019.

Larnaka and Pafos airports, had just 3.1% fewer passengers in May than in 2019, with over one million people passing through their gates.

Total passenger traffic in May reached 1.1 million, up from 884,600 in the same period last year, recording an increase of 23.7%.

Some 792,200 passengers travelled through the larger Larnaka airport, marking a 41% rise from 2022 and a 2.5% decrease compared to 2019.

At Pafos airport, 364,900 passengers were handled in May, up from 325,600 last year and 316,900 in 2019.

From January to May, air traffic reached 4.68 million from 2.47 million in the same five months of 2022 and 3.39 million in 2019.

Last year ended with 9.2 million passengers passing through Cyprus airports, approximately 82% of 2019 passenger traffic.

In 2019, passenger traffic rose to record levels of 11.3 million from 10.9 million in 2018.