{"id":1852,"date":"2025-01-11T05:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/record-year-for-airports-in-cyprus\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T05:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T05:11:21","slug":"record-year-for-airports-in-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/record-year-for-airports-in-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Record year for airports in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1258303\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/larnaca_airport-320x200.jpg?v=1611932986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/larnaca_airport.jpg?v=1611932986\" alt=\"Record year for airports in Cyprus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/larnaca_airport.jpg?v=1611932986\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>Larnaca airport [file photo]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Passenger traffic at Larnaca and Paphos airports hit an all-time high in 2024, marking a milestone for Cyprus\u2019 travel sector, according to the island\u2019s Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works.<\/p>\n<p>A total of approximately 7.8 million passengers passed through Cyprus\u2019 two airports in 2024, with the UK, Greece, Israel, Poland and Germany accounting for 64% of total traffic. The top destinations were London and Athens (1.4 million passengers each), followed by Tel Aviv (1 million), Thessaloniki, Manchester and Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger traffic surged by 5.6% compared to 2023 and 9.1% compared to 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, underscoring a strong recovery and consolidating Cyprus\u2019 appeal as both a tourism hotspot and business hub.<\/p>\n<p>Despite ongoing economic and geopolitical challenges, Cyprus demonstrated resilience, with travel demand spreading beyond the traditional summer season. January to March and September to December saw over 7% more passengers than in 2023, the ministry reported.<\/p>\n<p>December ended the year on a high note, with Larnaca and Paphos airports welcoming 654,760 passengers, a 10.5% increase compared to the same month in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/economy\/1258303\/record-year-for-airports-in-cyprus\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larnaca airport [file photo] Passenger traffic at Larnaca and Paphos airports hit an all-time high in 2024, marking a milestone for Cyprus\u2019 travel sector, according to the island\u2019s Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works. A total of approximately 7.8 million passengers passed through Cyprus\u2019 two airports in 2024, with the UK, Greece, Israel, Poland and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Record year for airports in Cyprus\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/record-year-for-airports-in-cyprus\/#more-1852\" aria-label=\"Read more about Record year for airports in Cyprus\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/larnaca_airport.jpg?v=1611932986","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}