Passenger Traffic in Georgia Increases by 31% in 2018
Tea Mariamidze
Friday, July 6
The Georgian Airports Association released the information on Thursday. According to them, the increased number of passenger was observed in all airports.
In January-June 2018, Tbilisi International Airport served 1.675.073 passengers, 30% more compared to the number of passengers transferred in the same period last year (1.3 million).
Batumi airport saw over 190.272 passengers in 2018, 43% more compared to the same period of 2017 January-June – 133.424 passengers.
Passenger traffic in Kutaisi International Airport has increased by 28%. The airport served 183.632 passengers in 6 months of 2017 while this year the indicator reached 234.679 passengers.
The local destination airports in Mestia and Ambrolauri welcomed 3.063 guests with a total of 156 flights taking place in the last 6 months of 2018.
As for the data from January-May, 2018, air traffic increased by 10.5% compared to the same period of 2017.
57.919 instrumental flights were performed in the airspace of Georgia. This indicator is 5.500 flights more and 10.5% more than the data of the previous year.
The total number of flights over Georgia in the last five months is 41.925, which is 2,760 flights and 5.7% more compared to the same period of 2017.
The number of departures and landings of planes in Georgia in January-May 2018 amounted to 15.994, which is 3.254 flights and 25.5% more compared to the previous year.