A total of 4.4 million passengers were carried AEGEAN during the 2nd quarter of 2024, recorded an 8% increase in passenger traffic and reached 7.3 million passengers in the first half of the year, a 9% increase compared to last year. In the 2nd quarter of the year alone, AEGEAN offered 5.4 million seats, 9% more than in 2023, while for the whole year it will offer more than 19.8 million seats, about 6% more than last year .
In particular, the balanced increase in passenger traffic recorded in the domestic and international networks is encouraged by the increased traffic in the hub of Athens, which is now establishing itself as a pole of attraction for international flights. -arriving from distant markets outside the EU, but also through additional connections with other corresponding European long-haul flight hubs (London, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Dubai) that feed and distribute through the AEGEAN domestic network passenger traffic to larger or smaller Greek island destinations.
More specifically, the increase in passenger traffic on the international network from and to the Athens hub recorded a 13% increase, confirming the company’s choice to invest further by increasing frequencies to and from the major hub in Europe, as well as markets in Germany, England, Cyprus, Turkey and the Gulf and Baltic countries.
Corresponding is the increase in passenger traffic to and from Thessaloniki (+12% in the 2nd quarter), which has already carried more than 500,000 foreign passengers in the first 6 months of the year, which gradually consolidating its position as a destination with year-round activity. round .
In particular, 1 additional daily flight was added to/from London (from 3 to 4 flights per day), Istanbul (up to 4 daily flights), Paris, Rome, Frankfurt (from/to Athens and Thessaloniki) and Larnaca, where the company’s new, upgraded lounge opened just a few days ago.
At the same time, daily flights to Dubai and increased frequencies to Saudi Arabia were tested.
In addition, additional weekly flights were added to Munich, Berlin, Vienna and Madrid, while on June 3 new direct international routes were added from the Athens base to Vilnius, Palermo and Sarajevo, while the bag Direct flights are also launched on domestic network itineraries. Thessaloniki-Naxos and Heraklion-Kalamata.