Excellent performance by Cagliari airport for this first part of the 2023 summer season.
According to data released by Sogaer , July surpasses the 600 thousand passenger barrier for the first time (arrivals + departures) and beats the already high record of August 2019 .
After May and June, closed respectively with 443,775 and 525,698 passengers, as Sogaer announces «the 614,674 passengers in July bring the total number of travelers this early summer to 1,584,147 (May-July). Year-on-year growth in the first three months of summer 2023 was supported by the exploit of traffic volumes on international routes : +11.8% in May, +10.4% in June and +11.9% in July ».
The month just ended recorded an increase of 5.5% on passengers in July 2022 and grew by 4.8% compared to July 2019. In absolute values, in July 2023 there were 412,762 passengers who flew on the 41 national routes; 201,912, however, the travelers on the 50 international routes.
Since the beginning of the year, the Elmas airport has been chosen by a total of 2,702,493 passengers, a figure which shows a growth of 13.9% compared to the same period of 2022 and of 3.9% compared to January-July 2019 .
In short, the positive trend observed "so far makes us look optimistically at the continuation of the 2023 summer season, with 91 direct connections between 18 countries operated by 23 airlines".
(Unioneonline/D)