Where and where people fly: the busiest airports announced
Air Service One, which specializes in air travel market research, named the busiest airports.
Moscow airport "Sheremetyevo" in June became the busiest air hub in Europe, and received more than 2.9 million passengers, the top three also got "Domodedovo" with 2.4 million passengers.
The second place is Istanbul Airport (IST) with 2.8 million passengers, 53% less than in June 2019. Another Istanbul airport (SAW) came in fourth place with 2.2 million passengers (minus 28%). Closes the top 5 busy airports "Pulkovo" (St. Petersburg) - 1.8 million passengers.
The top 10 busiest airports in Europe in June were Frankfurt (1.8 million passengers, minus 73% by June 2019), Antalya (1.73 million), Madrid (1.7 million) and Moscow Vnukovo - 1.69 million passengers, 9th place. Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport closes the top ten with 1.68 million passengers, which is 76% less than in June 2019.
Fourteenth place was taken by Sochi airport, which served 1.3 million passengers in June, it is a line higher than Paris Orly (1.2 million passengers). As Air Service One notes, the Russian airport was the only one among the first 15 busiest hubs, which showed an increase in passenger traffic compared to pre-pandemic June 2019 (plus 83%).
The twenty busiest airports in Europe are closed by Kyiv Boryspil (938.6 thousand passengers), Lisbon (857.5 thousand) and Munich (853.4 thousand).
Source: tourism.interfax