5 minutes agoTirana airport leads passengers across region
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Rinas International Airport has officially exceeded the influx of Belgrade airport travelers, being on record with more than 82 thousand passengers plus only during January. On the basis of the report, Belgrade Airport,choll Tesla managed to have 569 thousand and 572 passengers and was identified as a record record figure. [...]
On the basis of the report, Belgrade Airport,choll Tesla managed to have 569 thousand and 572 passengers and was identified as a record record figure. While Tirana International Airport marked 652 thousand and 270 passengers -- more than 82 thousand passengers -- than in Belgrade.
Tirana Airport has seen tremendous increases starting with 2.9 million passengers in 2018 and bringing them to 7.2 million for 2023.
The steady increase in flow at Tirana International Airport broke steadily record, and this time overcoming even Belgrade Airport, which for years has held first place in the Balkans.
This figure of passengers is 51.2% more than that of January 2023 when 413 thousand and 569 passengers were counted. The major investments the Kastrati Group has conducted at Mother Teresa Airport have enabled a greater number of airlines to be expected, new contracts, increased destinations, increased opportunities for direct travel to many cities in the world, as well as more visitors from those countries.
Viewing the trend for growth as well as in view of new destinations planned to increase, airport leaders have projected a total of 9 million passengers by the end of 2024, writes the Albanian Post.
The passenger shoots in Tirana International Airport have been a surprise to all and out of any forecast, but this has been due to strategic initiatives from the Kastrati Group to increase credibility with international partners, to bring high-speed aircraft to Tirana”, Operational Director at TIA Pierreveto Farabbi has said.
His aim is only to increase and that will be enhanced when we start direct lines to the continent of America.
He added that the third phase of the terminal expansion has already started, through which the terminal's area will triple, as well as the track will be extended, so that trans-cocean aircraft can operate.
We completed the second phase of enlargement in June 2023, and we soon followed the third phase, where almost 50,000 square meters of terminal will be added and airport”, he concluded. “We've attracted the attention of many airlines, now everyone wants to come here. This interest in airlines to start operating in Albania allows for increased passenger flow at the” airport.
