Regional airport traffic up 2.6%

Total rider traffic grew mildly successful some August and the archetypal 8 months of 2025 astatine the 14 determination airports managed by Fraport.

The objection was Santorini, affected by the aggravated seismic enactment past winter, while Mykonos recorded a diminution chiefly successful home flights, while showing stabilization trends successful the planetary network.

In total, 6.78 cardinal passengers passed done astatine the 14 determination airports (Thessaloniki, Hania, Rhodes, Corfu, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, Aktio, Kavala, Skiathos, Mykonos, Santorini, Kos, Mytilene and Samos) successful August, the highest period of the tourism season, signaling a 4% summation from the aforesaid play successful 2024. 

In January-August rider traffic amounted to 26.306 million, from 25.645 cardinal past year, signaling a 2.6% increase. Of these, 21.068 cardinal passengers came from the planetary network.

Thessaloniki’s Makedonia Airport is showing a afloat representation of recovery. Despite the challenges it faced, it has returned to dynamic growth. For Thessaloniki, the transition to mean rates aft the pandemic was not self-evident. The outbreak of the war successful Ukraine was an further inhibiting factor, arsenic the metropolis had important vulnerability to Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian visitors. The year 2023 marked the start of normalization and gradual growth, a trend which is getting stronger successful 2025. In August, the fig of passengers passing done Makedonia reached 910,204 (+9%), while successful the 8 months they amounted to 5.279 cardinal (+7.6%).

As for Mykonos, Greeks proceed to support their distance, arsenic astronomical prices marque it inaccessible to the wide public, turning it into a destination aimed astatine a fewer and very specific visitors. In the home network, 86,197 passengers were transported successful August, down 7% from past year, while connected planetary flights they reached 310,362, up 2.4%. In January-August, passengers totaled 1.231 million, of whom 870,920 were connected the planetary web (+2.7%).

At Santorini Airport, rider traffic successful August came to 465,739, of whom 325,293 were planetary passengers (-7.3%), while successful the 8 months the total fig reached 1.726 million, down 16% from 2024, with overseas travelers exceeding 1 million, down 12.6%.