Passenger Traffic at Greek Airports Up 7.6% in Q1, 2026

Passenger traffic at Greek airports recorded a 7.6% emergence successful the archetypal 4th of 2026, according to the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA).

The information revealed that astir 9.3 cardinal passengers transited the country’s airports compared to a small implicit 8.5 cardinal successful 2025 implicit the aforesaid period.

Aircraft arrivals crossed Greece’s 39 airports (domestic and planetary level arrivals and departures) roseate 6.8 percent successful the archetypal 4th of 2026 compared with the aforesaid play a year earlier, with a total of 80,122 flights recorded against 75,038 successful 2025, according to information released by the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA).

Passenger traffic astatine the 24 airports straight managed by the HCAA posted adjacent stronger growth, climbing 12.5 percent year-on-year successful the January-March period. Total passengers — covering some home and planetary arrivals and departures — reached 769,866, up from 684,405 successful the archetypal 4th of 2025.

The HCAA-managed web includes Heraklion, Kalamata, Alexandroupoli, Lemnos, Astypalaia, Ioannina, Chios, Kozani, Kastoria, Karpathos, Kythira, Milos, Skyros, Nea Anchialos, Paros, Syros, Araxos, Naxos, Kalymnos, Ikaria, Kastellorizo, Kasos, Leros, and Siteia.

Passenger traffic crossed the 24 HCAA airports accelerated further successful March, posting a 16.8 percent summation compared with March 2025. Heraklion airdrome recorded the strongest idiosyncratic performance, with rider numbers rising 18.8 percent to 189,317, up from 159,308 successful the aforesaid period the erstwhile year.